No formal cyber agreement with China, State official says

By Rudy Takala

Published October 1, 2015 9:05pm ET

No formal cyber agreement with China, State official says — "It will be our responsibility to look for the presence or absence of their purloining of intellectual property and other information," said Clapper. (AP File Photo) | J. Scott Applewhite

The United States has signed no formal agreement with China on cyber issues, a State Department official has affirmed.

“There’s a lot of reporting that there’s going to be a cyber arms control agreement, and that was erroneous reporting, so don’t believe everything you read,” said Christopher Painter, the State Department’s coordinator for cyber issues said on Thursday. “That was never true.”