The United States needs a more systematic approach to engage with China on cybersecurity and intellectual property issues, and to address the ongoing theft of industrial and defensive technologies via cyberattacks, a panel of policy and technology experts stated last week.
Without good options to respond to other nations' cyber operations, the US and Western countries are at a disadvantage. While the lion's share of cyberattacks are criminal in nature, the targeting of intellectual property is eroding — and in some areas, has already eroded — the United States' technological lead. The resemblance between China's advanced fighter aircraft and the US F-35 stealth fighter underscores that China is building much of its global power on technology from the US and other countries, said US Senator Angus King Jr. (I-ME), in a keynote for the virtual panel 'Stopping IP Theft by China' hosted by the MITRE Corp.
"The magnitude of intellectual property theft over the past decade has been staggering, into the billions, probably the trillions," said the senator, who co-chaired the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, a bipartisan effort to create policy recommendations for cyberspace. "And it has, I believe, powered the rise of the Chinese technology sector. [For the US,] it is not only a financial question, but a national security question, with this stealing of national security information and intellectual property that is very important to maintaining a qualitative edge for our national defense."
The Jan. 28 virtual roundtable focused on strategies for dealing with Chinese theft of intellectual property, with participants agreeing that the problem represented a fundamental threat to the US economy and ..
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