President Obama revealed to the media on Friday that cyber security issues would be one of the key focuses of the summit talks between him and Chinese President Xi Jinping
The Chinese premiere, on the other hand, said that he hoped the meeting would chart the "future relationships" of the two giant global powers.
"What both President Xi and I recognize is that because of these incredible advances in technology, that the issue of cyber security and the need for rules and common approaches to cyber security are going to be increasingly important as part of bilateral relationships and multilateral relationships," said Barack Obama, signaling that U.S. would not compromise its cyber security issues over the trade relationship with the Asian giant power China.
"We're going to have a healthy economic competition, but we also have a whole range of challenges on which we have to cooperate, from...North Korea's nuclear and missile programs -- to proliferation, to issues like climate change," added the U.S. president, according to the USA TODAY.
The Chinese President Xi Jinping emphasised, "Together we can build a new model for major country relationships."
According to the BBC News, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger remains hopeful that the two countries will "re-examine their premises" and to find out ways if they can "achieve a relationship based on some perspective that goes "beyond the moment" of solving immediate issues like cyber security.
China and U.S. have been accusing each other of stealing confidential information in recent months and China is even ready to provide a "mountain of data" to prove Pentagon's hacking into Chinese cyber security.
The Pentagon also blamed the Chinese government for cyber attacks in its annual report to U.S. lawmakers on Chinese military capabilities.
The Pentagon report, which was published in May, pointed out that some of the recent cyber attacks in the U.S. appeared "to be attributable directly to Chinese government and military."
Some U.S.-China experts say the two countries might succeed in cementing their relationship as the two giant powers don't share any direct land-border dispute or sea-dispute; however, the ongoing cyber security issues may somewhat derail the future relationship of the two countries.
