China’s President Xi Jinping has called on countries to respect one another’s “cyber sovereignty” and different internet governance models.Mr Xi said that countries have the right to choose how to develop and regulate their internet.He was speaking at the Beijing sponsored World Internet Conference held in Zhejiang province.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-35109453Also see:At U.N., China Tries to Influence Fight Over Internet Control
Over the last six months, United Nations diplomats have negotiated over the text of a document set to define the policies and frameworks of how the Internet is governed in the future, and who has a role in the process.The final version presented on Wednesday at the General Assembly contains a word that civil society groups, businesses and many Western governments oppose: multilateral.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/17/technology/china-wins-battle-with-un-over-word-in-internet-control-document.htmlXi Jinping defends China’s right to ‘sovereign’ internet
China’s President Xi Jinping on Wednesday defended China’s right to a “sovereign” internet in a speech that underlines China’s increasingly assertive efforts to justify online censorship.While China’s internet censoring apparatus, nicknamed the Great Firewall, used to be a secret, referred to obliquely if at all by officials, the government under Mr Xi has become increasingly strident in publicly defending its right to censor the internet.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/858b4988-a3bf-11e5-873f-68411a84f346.htmlWhy politicians still dream of controlling the internet
Who’s in charge of the internet? In the last 24 hours two political figures, one Chinese, the other American, have given their views on this issue.Both Xi Jinping and Donald Trump clearly thinks it is time for national governments to grasp control of the internet to bend it to their own political purposes.China’s leader was speaking in Wuzhen at an event called the World Internet Conference, which sounds grand and did bring in delegates from leading technology companies including Apple and Microsoft, plus the Internet naming body ICANN. But the only world leaders in attendance were from Russia, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, countries presumably sympathetic to China’s view of how the internet should be governed.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35112856WSIS+10: Roles, Responsibilities Remain Hot; Cybersecurity Treaty Demanded By Many States
Between a lot of applause this week for the first post-WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society) decade and especially for the negotiated agreement for the coming 10 years, some cracks appeared. These tell how differently regions still view roles and responsibilities for critical infrastructure management, and also the discrepancy between declaration and deployment of principles of the information society. In a notable statement, Mitchell Baker, chair of the Mozilla Foundation, warned that governments still have to learn how to govern the connected.
http://www.ip-watch.org/2015/12/16/wsis10-roles-responsibilities-remain-hot-cybersecurity-treaty-demanded-by-many-states/China Wants to Draw Borders in Cyberspace – But So Does Every Other Sovereign Nation by Peter Dombrowski, Professor at the U.S. Naval War College
Washington foreign policy elites often worry about the rise of China, that is, when they are not parsing President Obama’s strategy to combat the self-proclaimed Islamic State or lamenting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intervention in Syria. Lately they seem to worry most about how to stop China’s push into the South China Sea. The more strategically minded wonder when, not if, China will supplant the United States as the world’s dominant economy. More rarely, sophisticated observers track China’s challenges to the U.S- led system of global governance.With the new Chinese-initiated Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the expanded Shanghai Cooperation Council, and the ongoing lawfare related to maritime claims, China is slowly but surely promoting its own political and social values as alternatives to existing U.S. dominated international institutions.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/-peter-dombrowski/china-wants-to-draw-borders-in-cyberspace_b_8819872.htmlWill China’s Censorship Spread?
On Monday, prominent human-rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang went on trial for writing seven social-media posts criticizing Chinese policies and government officials. Supportive online messages posted during the trial were swiftly taken down.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/will-chinas-censorship-spread-1450292176