President Trump has repeatedly claimed that his predecessor was
weak on China. But at least with respect to cybersecurity, the
facts don't support that charge. In 2015, "following
all-night negotiations," Robert Silvers writes, the United States
convinced China to sign on to a joint commitment against "cyber enabled
theft of intellectual property." Ever since, China's
hacking of U.S. companies has dropped off dramatically. Next month,
Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to meet President Trump at the
"Southern White House" (Mar-a-Lago, of course). The
question is, will cybersecurity be on the agenda?
It wasn't always "Russia, Russia,
Russia."1 Before 2015, China was hacking culprit
number one. Its operations against U.S. corporations took a toll on
the economy in the billions, according to FBI Director James Comey. Chinese
hackers were after everything, from trade secrets and other IP to
information on companies' negotiation tactics. Around that
time, the Ponemon
