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Obama Stresses China Cyber Agreement During Meeting With President Xi

Tuesday, December 1st, 2015

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Obama Stresses China Cyber Agreement During Meeting With President Xi

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President Obama highlighted the importance of full adherence to the U.S.-China cyber commitments during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday at a side meeting in Paris at the 2015 U.N. Climate Change Conference, the White House said.In September Presidents Obama and Xi reached an agreement prohibiting both country’s governments from supporting cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property (Defense Daily, Sept. 25).Amid the start of the two-week conference, Obama met with President Xi “to reaffirm their shared determination to work…

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