按语：就在孟建柱携庞大阵容代表团与美方“达成共识”，喜形于色之际，奥巴马总统今日再次严厉警告中国，网络攻击是不可接受的！孟氏没有外交工作经验，此次单独与美方协商，想必结果未必就如中共官方媒体所吹嘘的那样。甚至，结果可能很不理想。

Cyber-attacks not acceptable, says Obama ahead of Xi’s US visit this month

BY AT EDITOR on SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

(From AFP)

US President Barack Obama warned that cyber-attacks from China were “not acceptable”, a message he is set to deliver when President Xi Jinping visits the White House this month.

Obama said state actors needed to agree rules of the road in order to stop cyber crises from escalating.

“There comes a point at which we consider this a core national security threat and will treat it as such,” he said.

Ahead of Xi’s state visit, Obama said “We have been very clear to the Chinese that there are certain practices that they are engaging in, that we know are emanating from China and are not acceptable.”

In a notably tough and confrontational tone, Obama said states could “chose to make this an area of competition.”

But, he warned, if that path was chosen it would be a competition that “I guarantee you we will win if we have to.”

“Alternatively we can come to an agreement in which we say this isn’t helping anybody, lets instead have some basic rules of the road.”

Following a spate of hack on US companies and government agencies that have been widely blamed on China, administration officials have pointedly let it be known that Chinese firms and individuals could face sanctions.

The move appears to be triggered in particularly by a recent breach of US federal government personnel files that left exposed millions of officials including some at the very top levels.

A year ago, US prosecutors unsealed indictments leveling spying charges against five Chinese military personnel they believe hacked into US networks to profit Chinese firms.

But beyond indictments Washington has struggled to build an effective deterrent against a wave of increasingly damaging cyber-attacks.

Calibrating which attacks warrant diplomatic protests and which require a more forceful response has proven fraught.

Any broad move by the world’s biggest economy to punish the second largest could have global political and economic consequences and would likely trigger retribution.

US intelligence has also been accused of mounting cyber-attacks to scoop up Chinese data accusations reportedly supported by documents leaked by fugitive contractor Edward Snowden.