On September 25, the United States and China agreed to contain their industrial or economic cyber espionage activities against each other.[1] This is the first instance of two major cyber powers reaching common ground on norms of state behaviour in cyberspace.
The agreement, reminiscent of the United States-Soviet Union arms control accords of the Cold War era, is important because industrial or economic cyber espionage has been a thorny issue in the U.S.-China relationship since the early 2000s.