Abstract
China conducts more cyber espionage on itself than any other country does. The ecosystem for security in cyberspace is distorted by the country’s political system. The chapter lays out China’s definition of the problem set, and describes key features of the 2016 National Cyber Security Strategy. It then gives some background on the national policy shift in 2014 represented by Xi’s declaration of the ambition for China to become a cyber power.
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Austin, G. (2018). The Cybersecurity Ecosystem. In: Cybersecurity in China. SpringerBriefs in Cybersecurity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68436-9_1
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