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According to Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Robert Knake, the agreement will be enforced by something called CERT-to-CERT agreement — that is, direct cooperation between Chinese and American law enforcement officials. If American commercial secrets are stolen, US law enforcement should now be able to call up their Chinese counterparts and expect real investigations and possibly even arrests as a result.
This hasn’t been true in the past. “In the latest business climate survey by the American Chamber of Commerce in China, nearly 80% of the 447 respondents described Beijing’s enforcement of intellectual-property rights laws as ‘ineffective’ or ‘very ineffective,'” the Wall Street Journal’s Chun Han Wong writes.
The agreement also establishes a Cabinet-level dialogue between the countries on espionage and a “red phone” system the US can use to register complaints.
In short, the US has gotten China to at least promise to clamp down on an issue that has been a real economic problem for the US. It’s also set up an enforcement mechanism that the US can use as a barometer to see if China is actually following through (if there are no arrests, then it’s not working), as well as a system for registering complaints if China shirks. That’s not nothing.
Read more: The new US-China cybersecurity agreement: a brief guide
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