It&#x27;s possible China is doing this to improve commercial relationship with the U.S., especially if the US allows it to bully American companies into doing &quot;joint ventures&quot; with Chinese companies, if they want to do business there:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;24&#x2F;cisco-systems-china-idUSL1N11U06K20150924" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;24&#x2F;cisco-systems-chin...</a><p>I don&#x27;t think US is holding a gun to China&#x27;s head. I think it&#x27;s more of a quid pro quo thing. It may even be <i>worse</i> than that. China and US may have agreed to arrest some people for show, so it looks like the US gov is &quot;doing something&quot;, while in reality nothing major changes, and the two countries agree to spy each other for economic purposes.<p>If we&#x27;re going to continue to see these arrests of hackers who hacked into the US from China <i>over the next year</i>, then maybe we&#x27;re going somewhere. But if this is <i>it</i> as the response for the OPM hack, then it was definitely just for show.