When Fujitsu, a Japanese computer giant, introduced a performance-based pay scheme during the 1990s, it proved so unpopular that the company had to scaleitback.
However, the scale and intensity of the Chinese cyber offensive has become too great for Washington to ignore, and Beijing shows no inclination to scaleitback.
Even officials at the Treasury and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. sided with the banks, saying the proposal threatened to add risk to the system rather than scaleitback.