CHINA-CYBERSPACE AT 19TH PARTY CONGRESS

Cyber policy and security were publicised in China in September in advance of the 19th Party Congress with the authoritative Party journal Qiu Shi (Seeking Truth) publishing an important article by the previously unknown Theoretical Studies Centre Group under the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC). It was titled “Deepening the Implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s Strategic Thinking on Building China into a Cyber Superpower: Steadily Advancing Cybersecurity and Informatization Work”. The article outlines the major elements of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s strategic thinking on one of Chinese cyberspace policy that can be translated as “cyber superpower,” or “building China into a national power in cyberspace". It lists four main elements namely: (i) managing Internet content and creating “positive energy” online; (ii) ensuring general cybersecurity, including protecting critical information infrastructure; (iii) developing an independent, domestic technological base for the hardware and software that undergird of the Internet in China; and (iv) increasing China’s role in building, governing, and operating the Internet globally.  

(Comments: It is probable that during, or shortly before, the 19th Party Congress, Xi Jinping will expand on the proposition, unveiled at the WIC in 2015, that it is necessary to build a “community of shared destiny in cyberspace.”) 







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