US lawmakers may sour China Prez visit with new cyber bill

06 Jun 2013

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A day before Chinese President Xi Jinping visits the United States, three US lawmakers plan to propose a new law that would punish hackers backed by China, Russia or other foreign governments for cyber spying and theft.

The new bill, to be introduced today, seeks to freeze US assets of individual foreign hackers and revoke visas for them and their families, according to a spokeswoman for Representative Mike Rogers, one of the authors of the measure.

Rogers, a Republican who chairs the house intelligence committee and leads cybersecurity efforts in Congress, is introducing the bill jointly with Democratic Representative Tim Ryan of Ohio and Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.

President Barack Obama will meet Xi in California this week and plans to tell him that Washington considers Beijing responsible for any cyber attacks launched from Chinese soil and that China must abide by international "rules of the road" on cybersecurity, reports Reuters.

China has consistently denied US accusations of cyber hacking and has insisted it is more a victim than a perpetrator.

"Cyber hackers from nation-states like China and Russia have been aggressively targeting US markets, stealing valuable intellectual property, and then repurposing it and selling it as their own," Rogers' office said.

The new bill, the text of which has not yet been released, will be the second such legislation taken up by Congress after a group of senators introduced the Deter Cyber Theft Act last month

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