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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

Evan Osnos, John Seabrook, and James Surowiecki on the Chinese hacking scandal.

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

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4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2013

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Evan Osnos, John Seabrook, and James Surowiecki on the Chinese hacking scandal.

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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

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It's Thursday, May 30th. I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of The New Yorker.

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A few months ago, in a conversation with George Stephanopoulos on ABC about cyber security threats, President Obama said,

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We've made very clear to China and some other state actors that we expect them to follow

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international norms and abide by international rules, and we'll have some pretty tough talk with them we already have.

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Next week, President Obama will be meeting with the new Chinese president,

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Xi Jinping, for two days in the California desert. Evan Osnos, John Seabrook, and James Sirwicki

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are here today to talk about Chinese hacking and U.S. Chinese relations. So, Evan, on Monday,

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we learned that the designs of major U.S. weapons systems were hacked by the Chinese.

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Tell us about how serious this breach is and why we're learning about it now.

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This was significant. This has kicked off a new round of concern about what has, in fact, been taken over the course of the last few years.

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Some of these hacks go back as far as 2007, but now seeing it in total is quite

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