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,” the White House said

Source: US-China agreement is cyberpeace for our time, in public anyway | ZDNet

Pardon my inquiry, but why would we believe anyone who says this when:

1. We know they’ve been hacking the shit out of us for years
2. They have lied to our faces about this fact for years

So here’s the workflow on this idiocy:

• US: Have you been hacking us?
• China: No.
• US: But we know you have.
• China: Nope.
• US: Ok, well let’s agree to not do it in the future, ok?
• China: Sounds good.
• US: So no more hacking, right?
• China: Right.

Brilliant. I doubt I’ll be surprised when we hear more stories about them continuing to do what they haven’t been doing.

So, just in case someone’s keeping score: Iran is not building a nuke, and China is not hacking us.

Notes

1. Image from thechinamoneyreport.com.