“The Department's commitment to disrupt the illegal and predatory Chinese activity aimed and America and its allies, as illustrated in prosecution after prosecution, will not waver,`` he added. The Justice Department, for its part, did keep an eye on Moscow, unsealing an indictment last month that accused six Russian military officers in a global hacking campaign. The Justice Department says it has charged more than 10 trade-secret theft cases tied to China since the China Initiative began. To be sure, the Justice Department had begun a focus on Chinese hackers well before Trump took office. The following year, President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that their countries had agreed not to conduct or support hacking for economic espionage.

Source: The Standard November 19, 2020 12:33 UTC