As tensions over cyber security increase between US and China, diplomats in both countries are walking a tightrope to resolve an issue that has become too big to ignore. Regardless of the differences, both must find a way to navigate the cyber security waters before it leads to a situation that spins out of control.

The release of the Mandiant report may become an opportunity for China and the U.S. to open a pragmatic dialogue on cyber issues as well as in the military area, writes Li Zheng.

During the Cold War, deterrence was a strategy used to dissuade other nations from using nuclear weapons. Now, in order to avoid a cyber arms race, Yang Jian encourages the United States to end its strategy of cyberspace deterrence and institute a paradigm shift embracing global collective security.

The most recent revelations of the activities of the Chinese Army Unit 61398 through the computer firm Mandiant has given the impression that the United States is entering a new phase of cyber conflict with the People’s Republic of China.

The recent allegation that Chinese military was behind hacker attacks” against US websites by certain US firms and media are not only annoying but also laughable, write officers at China's Ministry of National Defense.

Although some Obama advisers have recommended harsh action in response to China’s cyberespionage, China is unlikely to respond as they may hope. The spying will continue and probably intensify regardless of what the United States does.

The New York Times recently claimed it was “attacked by Chinese hackers,” but the US has yet to produce any damning evidence to support the wild accusations.

This essay dissects the implications of China’s “Internet Sovereignty” policy following WCIT-12. Offered as an alternative vision to the U.S.’s “Internet freedom” agenda, the Chinese approach holds sway in the Global South as we enter a new Internet world no longer dominated by liberal democracies.

Similar to the fictional “missile gap” during the Cold War, Franz Stefan-Gady argues that a the China-US relationship is in danger of falling into a fictional “cyber weapons gap.”

Every businessman that I know has experienced serious cyber attacks on his/her company. One CEO told me recently his company gets 60,000 attacking emails a day