US may impose sanctions on China. These actions relate to a series of hacker attacks on US institutions – Ekho Moskvy radio station

The Obama administration is developing a package of economic sanctions against a number of Chinese individuals and legal entities. According to the White House, they can be involved in the hacking attacks, which were subjected to US authorities to steal trade secrets. This Washington Post reported referring to the White House. While the final decision on this point is not, the authorities are determined over the next couple of weeks, said the source publication. A senior Obama administration official said that Washington is so “will give a signal to Beijing that the administration intends to respond to the economic espionage.” In addition, the authorities intend to assure the American private sector that support it. In early July, the management staff of the US administration announced that hackers could steal personal data of 21.5 million US government employees and other citizens. The report also noted that there are two separate, unrelated cases of identity theft. In this attack, American service suspected Chinese hackers. In early August, The New York Times wrote that the administration of US President is going to “take revenge on China.”
official at the White House this information had no immediate comment.