Carlos Joglar- Chinese Caught Spying Once Again

Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinese-cyberattacks-us-companies-continue-084406615.html

Just one month after making a treaty prohibiting Chinese use of cyberattacks for espionage on the U.S., CrowdStrike, a company that employs former FBI and government technological experts, says it detected Chinese attempts in uncovering confidential corporate information. They found six instances in which it appeared China was trying to gather information on trade to give to competitors. CrowdStrike says these attempts were thwarted before any information could be stolen. Monitoring of Chinese cyberattacks has been elevated.

The Chinese have a notorious history with cyberattacking the U.S. And yet, though we just signed an agreement last month prohibiting such behavior, they were caught trying it again, with one instance being just one day after the treaty was signed. I do not believe this issue is cause by technology, however. Yes, this is obviously a technologically based problem, but there were major spying instances back before the internet. Every country has had spies, but when they were caught, they were mostly likely tortured and executed. With the development of the internet, though it is much easier to gather confidential information, it is also much easier to track down a country as a whole responsible for spying and therefore identify the problem in terms of a country and not a few individuals just doing their jobs. The treaty was made after threat of U.S. sanctions on the Chinese, so they made haste to agree to the U.S.'s terms so that they could avoid sanctions. If the Chinese are so quick to avoid these sanctions, there is obvious value of the U.S. to the Chinese. Hopefully the U.S. uses this to their advantage when they confront China with these issues.