In December 2015, China and the United States began their first ministerial-level discussions on cybersecurity. According to a news report, the Director of the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Attorney General represented the United States, while the head of China’s Ministry of Public Security represented Beijing’s interests.
The goal of this meeting is to start to identify areas that will help shape state behavior in cyberspace, and perhaps initiate negotiations on what would be the first cyber arms-control agreement to ban peacetime attacks on critical infrastructure.
