Cybersecurity Policy Report, Clinton Sees Cybersecurity among Key Foreign Policy Issues, (Feb 4, 2013)
Outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States faces a range of foreign policy challenges going forward, including the need to address growing concerns about cybersecurity.
In her last foreign policy address as Secretary of State, Ms. Clinton spoke Jan. 31 at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington. In addition to listing cybersecurity among the key foreign policy issues that will need to be addressed, she also referenced it specifically when talking about the challenges of dealing with China.
"Navigating this relationship is uniquely consequential. How we deal with each other will define so much of our common future. It is also uniquely complex," she said. "To make this work, we really do have to be able to use every lever at our disposal all the time."
"We expanded our high-level engagement through the strategic and economic dialogue to cover both the traditional strategic issues … also emerging issues like climate change, cybersecurity, intellectual property concerns, as well as human rights," she said.
Ms. Clinton later said emerging issues like cybersecurity should be addressed in the U.S. "not just across the government but across our society."
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