Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by JumpCrisscross 3454 days ago
The full text is:

"The United States and China agree that neither country’s government will conduct or knowingly support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property, including trade secrets or other confidential business information, with the intent of providing competitive advantages to companies or commercial sectors" [1] (emphasis mine).

Not a meaningful commitment since the U.S. does not (officially) do this and the concept of a purely-commercial Chinese company defies delineation.

[1] https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/0...