China calls for Internet front to fight hacking, cyber ‘arms race’

December 16, 2015May 15, 2017 publisher bangkok, broader-efforts, china, conference, cyberspace-arms, flow, king, preside-over, sawitta, southeast

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China’s President Xi Jinping laid out his vision for the Internet on Wednesday, calling for a new status quo where Internet sovereignty rests in the hands of nations controlling the flow of information. “Each country should join hands and together curb the abuse of information technology, oppose network surveillance and hacking, and fight against a cyberspace arms race,” Xi told China’s second World Internet Conference. Since Xi took China’s helm in early 2013, he has presided over a centralization of domestic Internet governance and broader efforts to control, and often censor, the flow of information online, experts say.