The Consequences of China Cyber Espionage

Business Daily

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🗓️ 11 January 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Did China steal the plans for much of its military hardware, like the J20 jet, from Western defence firms? And what has the US been doing to counter Chinese hacking?

Ed Butler speaks to Garrett Graff, a journalist for Wired magazine who has been following the twists and turns in US-China cyber relations over the past few years, including a hacking truce secured by President Obama, that broke down after he left the Oval Office. Plus Ian Bremmer, president of the risk consultancy Eurasia Group, explains why he fears that we are seeing a widening split in the tech economy between China and the West, and that this may be paving the way to a more dangerous real-world conflict.

(Picture: A J-20 jet performs at Zhuhai Air Show in China; Credit: STR/AFP/Getty Images)

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1:02.8	Hello, I'm Ed Butler.
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1:07.2	Today we're examining the growing and apparently intractable problem that we face worldwide, cyber espionage, and Washington's obsession about it.
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