On October 4, U.S. and Chinese officials agreed to not engage in targeted hacking. Per a published summary of the dialogue, the United States and China agreed to continue to work toward providing timely responses on information requests regarding cybercrime, not conduct or support cyberattacks and theft of intellectual property and trade secrets, make efforts to find "appropriate norms" for international cyberspace behavior, maintain "high-level joint dialogue" on cybercrime issues, and increase law enforcement cooperation on security issues.

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