The New York Times writes, "Offense is moving a lot faster than defense," Mr. Obama told troops on Friday at Fort Meade, Md., home of the National Security Agency and the United States Cyber Command. "The Russians are good. The Chinese are good. The Iranians are good." The problem, he said, was that despite improvements in tracking down the sources of attacks, "we can't necessarily trace it directly to that state," making it hard to strike back. Then he issued a warning: "There comes a point at which we consider this a core national security threat." If China and other nations cannot figure out the boundaries of what is acceptable, "we can choose to make this an area of competition, which I guarantee you we'll win if we have to."
"The official Xinhua News Agency said on Tuesday that Cheng Boming, president of Citic Securities Co. and executive committee member, was being investigated for suspected crimes related to possible release of insider information. The report also said police are probing Yu Xinli, director of operation management department, and Wang Jinling,deputy manager of information technology center, over similar allegations. Neither Citic Securities nor the executives could immediately be reached for comment," The Wall Street Journal reports.
Reuters reports, "China appears to be carrying out preparatory work for a third airstrip in contested territory in the South China Sea, a U.S. expert said on Monday, citing satellite photographs taken last week. The photographs taken for Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) think tank on Sept. 8 show construction on Mischief Reef, one of seven artificial islands China has created in the Spratly archipelago. The images show a retaining wall around an area 3,000 meters (3,280 yards) long, matching similar work by China on two other reefs in the Spratlys, Subi and Fiery Cross, said Greg Poling, director of CSIS's Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI)."