The issue of cyber hacking has strained relations between the two countries.
And then, also will the issue of cyber theft and phone hacking come up in the wake of the McAfee study last week?
Mustafa Al-Bassam, 18, from Peckham, south London, and Jake Davis, 20, from Lerwick, Shetland, have also now pleaded guilty to hacking and launching cyber-attacks.
Alan Paller, the director of the SANS Institute, for instance, made this argument to us when he explained to us why offensive hacking should be included in the Cyber Challenge program for finding and training young hackers, despite the risk of fostering young cybercriminals.
Statistics gathered for Verizon's annual data breach report suggested state-sponsored hacking attacks were now the number two cyber-threat.
China, which called the Mandiant report flawed, says that it opposes hacking activities and is a victim of cyber attacks itself.
In May, such grudge-hacking reached a new level: international cyber-warfare.
But if we ever wanted to consider treaties on cyber disarmament, or regulations on the use of hacking tools by those wishing to do more than simply spy or steal, we would become immediately stymied by how to enforce the rules.
Hacking, sabotage, espionage and other forms of cyber-warfare are genuine dangers, and billions of dollars have been spent over the last few decades to secure government and corporate information against bad guys usurping or corrupting it.
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Shawn Henry, president of Crowdstrike and former Executive Assistant Director of the FBI and head of its Cyber Division, is quick to note that his company does not advocate hacking into systems.
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Brian Moore, senior lecturer in ethical hacking and network security at Coventry University, said the general perception of how cyber criminals operated had been "glamourised and completely falsified by the likes of shows like CSI and NCIS".
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