https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/us/politics/china-trump-cyberespionage.html
By David E. Sanger and Steven Lee Myers
The New York Times
Nov. 29, 2018
WASHINGTON -- Three years ago, President Barack Obama struck a deal with
China that few thought was possible: President Xi Jinping agreed to end
his nation's yearslong practice of breaking into the computer systems of
American companies, military contractors and government agencies to obtain
designs, technology and corporate secrets, usually on behalf of China's
state-owned firms.
The pact was celebrated by the Obama administration as one of the first
arms-control agreements for cyberspace -- and for 18 months or so, the
number of Chinese attacks plummeted. But the victory was fleeting.
Soon after President Trump took office, China's cyberespionage picked up
again and, according to intelligence officials and analysts, accelerated
in the last year as trade conflicts and other tensions began to poison
relations between the world’s two largest economies.
The nature of China's espionage has also changed. The hackers of the
People’s Liberation Army -- whose famed Unit 61398 tore through American
companies until its operations from a base in Shanghai were exposed in
2013 -- were forced to stand down, some of them indicted by the United
States. But now, the officials and analysts say, they have begun to be
replaced by stealthier operatives in the country's intelligence agencies.
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