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A good study for the decision makers not only to understand future China – US relation. More importantly to analyse our functioning  as we are confronted with an environment of technology speed of Media and cyber activities demanding change in our working style. The security apparatus will fail if it does not respond to these challenges. Acquiring information ,making quick assessments and equiviping  decision maker to take timely decision is need of the time. The salients of brooking study are as under: 

In the web of relationships that have built up between the U.S. and China, no issue has emerged of such importance, and generated such friction in so short a time span, as cybersecurity. Concerns over this domain have rapidly moved to the forefront of U.S.-China relations. While both senior policymakers and general publics are struggling to understand the cyber realm’s basic dynamics and implications, the issue of cybersecurity is looming ever larger in U.S.-China relations and is seriously affecting threat perceptions on both sides.

Policy, which often moves at a slower pace than technical innovation, is inevitably at risk of being fundamentally out of synch in dealing with exponential rates of technological change in cyber capabilities. Additionally, at least in policy terms decision-making time is, in effect, compressed in cybersecurity. While proper preparations for an attack may require weeks or months, the actual elapsed time for its successful execution may be counted in nanoseconds. Thus, the normal processes of governments and institutions to decide on responses may simply be irrelevant to the problem. Finally, there is a generational chasm between today’s “digital natives,” the youth who have grown up in a world where computers have always existed, and anyone from older generations, for whom computers are something to which they have had to adjust (so-called “digital immigrants”) are often the most uncomfortable even talking about cyber issues.

          Large human, financial, or physical resources are not necessary in order to act at scale in the cyber realm. This is, moreover, a sphere in which learning can take place at great speed among those on the cutting edge. Never before in history has scalability of a threat been so easy to achieve. Because of this element of scale, the lines between state and non-state actions in the cyber world are often shifting and blurred.It was noted earlier that cyberspace is populated by both public and private actors. This raises an additional problem of decentralization and scale. While the impact of individuals is often overstated in cyber security (the best types of malware often require the cooperation of multiple experts skilled in a variety of areas rather than the popular trope of a single teenaged hacker in his parents’ basement), the cyber realm is one in which small groups can potentially generate enormous consequences.   (OUTSOURCING)

            All the major countries of the world are engaged in various forms of cyber security activities as part of state-directed efforts. All have built cyber based capabilities and requirements into their governmental processes, military capabilities, and economic activities. Every major state is, therefore, vitally concerned with the security of its own cyber activities and its capacity to understand what others are doing in this realm.But uncertainties abound in this space, especially between the U.S. and China. As explained above, many of these uncertainties will be difficult if not impossible to reduce substantially. Neither attribution nor institutional control problems are likely to diminish significantly anytime soon on their own. And thus this sphere is one in which suspicions and fears understandably easily mushroom. "

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