Germany and China have reached an agreement whereby the two nations have agreed to stop any ongoing commercial cyberwar that may be happening at the moment. The two nations have agreed to begin to halt any aggressive hacking attacks that may be going on,

The agreement generally favors Germany as most of the business infrastructure in the country is rather ill prepared to deal with cyber attacks in general or an outright cyberwar coming from the Chinese, reports Bloomberg. China has put such agreements in force with other countries such as England and the United States also. Germany told the Chinese that they must have a treaty in place as immediately a possible. The Chinese readily agreed to Germany’s terms as the Germans are China’s largest and most important trading partner.

The Germans are aware of China’s cyber espionage program just as most nations are. The challenge is that most German companies have rather porous and weakly defended IT systems in place. Germany has accused the Chinese of espionage in the past but both countries are willing to drop all of that in place of the cyber security treaty. The Chinese have briefly stated, with regard to the matter, that they have always been against the stealing of state secrets.

When President Obama met with the Chinese president last month, they both came to terms on a similar cyber security treaty. President Obama, however, like the Germans, was the one with the leverage. He threatened the Chinese with direct trade and private sanctions if a treaty was not immediately put into place.

The Director of the National Security Agency, Admiral Michael Rogers, has been a rather vocal spokesman for the opposing view. He doesn’t see how such treaties make any sense, or can be upheld, if there are so many rogue governments and organizations out there who are not held to such a treaty.

He warned of such rogue entities like the Islamic State who are out, he says, to destabilize the entire world if they can and they will use every means they can get their hands on.