The talks ended at three a.m. on the morning the Chinese were scheduled to return to Beijing. Upon landing, Meng acknowledged for the first time that there was a difference between cyber espionage for national-security purposes and cyber espionage for corporate economic benefit. Obama told American business leaders that cyberattacks would “probably be one of the biggest topics,” and his goal was to see “if we and the Chinese are able to coalesce around a process for negotiations” that would “bring a lot of countries along.”
