Differing outlooks impede Sino-US cooperation to enhance cybersecurity

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Zachary K. Goldman and Jerome A. Cohen
China and the US both talk about “cybersecurity”, but mean different things. In Washington, cybersecurity is fundamentally about preventing unauthorised access to digital systems and, notwithstanding massive foreign hacking of US government databases, mainly focuses on protecting private-sector data  as well as critical infrastructure.