U.S. to Raise Cybersecurity with China in ‘Pretty Direct Terms’

Meetings between top U.S. and Chinese officials began under a cloud of mistrust and acrimony arising from tension over security in cyberspace and at sea. As the WSJ’s Felicia Schwartz and Ian Talley report:

The Obama administration, reeling from a massive computer attack and data theft at the government’s Office of Personnel Management, pledged to raise the issue of cybersecurity with Chinese counterparts at every level during the annual talks, including in security and economic sessions.

U.S. officials haven’t formally accused China of the cyber-intrusion, which resulted in the theft of millions of personnel records and the likely loss of sensitive security-clearance information. But a senior State Department official said Monday that the issue “will be addressed in pretty direct terms with the Chinese.”

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