Washington.QUESTION: Hi. Thank you very much for having this briefing. My name is Alicia Rose with NHK. The U.S. and China, as you mention, recently came to an agreement that neither government will conduct cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property. My question is on what ledto this agreement. In particular, there have been reports that Ambassador Rice met with Chinese counterparts in Beijing, where she warned that approximately 25 Chinese state-owned enterprises were under threat of U.S. sanctions for conducting cyber theft against U.S. companies. Is that correct?ASSISTANT SECRETARY RUSSEL: Well, Im not the right person to brief on the confidential discussions that our national security advisor had in Beijing. But I myself have discussed the problem of state-sponsored, cyber-enabled theft by China of proprietary corporate information from U.S. companies that is then transferred and in some cases marketized. That is aproblem that the President and the Secretary of State and other senior officials have been very direct in flagging for the Chinese as unacceptable behavior.In response to the strong concerns that we have conveyed consistently about that behavior, and inadvance of the visit to Washington by the President Xi, the Chinese Government proposed to send to Washington a very senior official, their secretary that who oversees their law enforcement and intelligence activities, Meng Jianzhu, and the U.S. side agreed. Secretary Mengled a high-level delegation with a broad spectrum of senior representatives from relevant agencies to Washington, and over the course of two-plus days had in-depth conversations with a U.S. team led by the Secretary of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson, but that meetings that also included conversations with Secretary Kerry and with Susan Rice.I think you can see from the agreements that were announced during President Xis visit that the Chinese side took American concerns seriously. They had heard in Seattle as well from high-tech business leaders, from industry representatives, and from the Secretary of Commerce, PennyPritzker, more concerns about the negative impact that cyber intrusions and particularly cyber-enabled economic threat theft was having on our bilateral relationship.I cant top what President Obama himself said on this issue, so I wont try. But I flag for you the fact that he stated very clearly to President Xi as they stood together at the podium that the United States is watching closely to see that, in fact, China is honoring the obligations that they have undertaken in this new agreement.QUESTION: Thank you.QUESTION: My name is Manik Mehta. Im syndicated in Asia, also in Malaysia, India, et cetera. You are headed for Malaysia next week. Could you give some details of what you intenddoing there, and whom are you meeting? Also, could you clarify what this messaging center is about in Kuala Lumpur?If I may also add another question this is in regard to the trilateral meeting between U.S., Japan, and India. Is this a precursor to the formation of an alliance in the future? Thank you.ASSISTANT SECRETARY RUSSEL: Great. Thank you. I am going to Kuala Lumpur to attend the ASEAN and East Asia Summit senior officials meetings. This is part of the regular