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U.S., China Hold Second High Level Dialogue On Cyber Issues

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, June 15th, 2016

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U.S., China Hold Second High Level Dialogue On Cyber Issues

The Justice Department said Tuesday night that the government officials from the United States and China held a second set of meetings involving cyber crime and related issues and decided to continue to work on information sharing and to hold another tabletop exercise.The first joint dialogue between government representatives of the two countries was held last December to follow up on commitments made last September between President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping aimed at preventing government support of…

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