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Russia, China Upgrade Cooperation in Cyber-Security and Counter- Terrorism
24 October 2014
EIRNS—The BRICS Post reports two new measures taken by Russia and China to cooperate on security issues. Kommersant business daily on Tuesday quoted a source saying a cyber security agreement could be signed during Putin’s meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, on November 10, on the sidelines of the upcoming APEC meeting in Beijing. "The move has been seen as a necessary step in the wake of revelations leaked to media in June 2013 by CIA whistle-blower Edward Snowden about the National Security Agency’s (NSA) global espionage and communication monitoring scheme, known as Prism," the report says. One point of the joint declaration of the BRICS Summit in Brazil in July said the bloc of five would explore Russia’s proposal for a BRICS agreement on cooperation in cyber-security. Also, Chinese and Russian police held an anti-terror drill on Monday in Manzhouli city in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, near Russia’s border city of Zabaikalsk. Presidents Xi and Putin had earlier agreed to step up cooperation to counter extremism and terrorism. [Michael Billington] |