Illustrates and reaffirms China's main positions and propositions on cyberspace development and security and serves as the guide for China's cybersecurity work. The Strategy aims to build China into a cyber power while promoting orderly, secure, and open cyberspace and safeguarding national sovereignty.
Published in Chapter:
China's Cyber Security Policy and the Democratic World
Irakli Kervalishvili (Georgian Technical University, Georgia)
Copyright: © 2023
|Pages: 13
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-8846-1.ch015
Abstract
In the modern world, transferring data into digital format, electronic commerce, social media, and receiving public services through online platforms are very relevant. The more states become dependent on cyberspace, the more reasons and means hostile actors have for cyberattacks, stealing and distorting information, and paralyzing systems. We must keep in mind that cyber security is not only about computer programming and information technology. Cyber security is a vital part of national security, as cyber-attacks target people, public opinion, and public and business sectors. China is indeed quite an aggressive cyber actor, but there is another, non-democratic state that has much greater economic-technological resources, ambition, and aspiration for cyber expansionism.