U.S, China to hold talks on cybersecurity

United States will host its global rival, China to a meeting on cybersecurity in Washington next month, the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Susan Thornton has said. Thornton, who disclosed this recently during Africa Regional Media Hub Telephonic Media Briefing on US-China Cooperation in Africa, said the two […]

United States will host its global rival, China to a meeting on cybersecurity in Washington next month, the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Susan Thornton has said.
Thornton, who disclosed this recently during Africa Regional Media Hub Telephonic Media Briefing on US-China Cooperation in Africa, said the two countries, during the Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington, reached an agreement about the need to have high level exchanges and dialogues about various hacking and cyber intrusions. 
Thornton, who was responding to question on issues of cybersecurity, said; “We have been working very hard with China…There is a lot of unregulated space in the cyber domain…So one of the things that we have found is that the lack of international agreements and regulations for how governments should act in cyberspace has been creating some problems.”
On his part, the Director of the Office of Economic and Regional Affairs in the Bureau of African Affairs, Peter Barlerin, noted that the US State Department, in collaboration with private sectors and NGOs, had been engaging with the African Union and regional economic organisations across Africa to build capacity in cybersecurity and also to discuss internet governance models of development.