Let’s see, Xi JingPing and Barrack Obama met in Sunnylands, California, early June 7th. Months prior, all major news media berated China for all kinds of cyber criminal activities: piracy, hacking, spying, and downright stealing US’s advanced defense technologies.
Move #68, Obama: Embarrass Xi as a tactic to gain position for the meeting.
All of the sudden, we learned that NSA and CIA have been spying on the US citizens. In fact, according to Edward Snowden, they have been hacking China and other countries as well. This news broke out right before the Xi-Obama meeting.
Move #68, Xi: Neutralize attack by claiming propaganda from the US. Return fire. Embarrass Obama and bring up domestic political storm.
Don’t tell me that you really believed in those news stories.