June 15, 2015 | Quote

Obama Urged to Get Tough With China

President Obama now has the authority to sanction anybody who attacks the United States' infrastructure, and experts and lawmakers alike want him to unleash it on China.

Obama signed an executive order April 1 allowing economic sanctions against “malicious cyberactors whose actions threaten the national security, foreign policy, or economic health or financial stability of the United States.”

Two months later, on June 4, the administration revealed that the Office of Personnel Management, the federal government's human resources department, was the victim of a massive cyberattack in December that compromised the personnel files of four million past and current federal workers.

Although the White House hasn't placed any blame yet, plenty of other government officials are anonymously accusing the People's Republic of China.

Retired Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said the U.S. will pay a steep price if it doesn't get tough with China now.

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Pasi Eronen, a cyberexpert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said the U.S. must realize what is at stake with the cyberattacks and respond accordingly.

“The Chinese and their collaborators hope to compromise America's core intelligence capabilities and erode the source of U.S. global power: its economic dominance,” Eronen wrote June 8 in the New York Post. “We must start making our adversaries pay a steep price for their attacks.”

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