No nation should have hegemony over internet: Xi Jinping

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans

No nation should have hegemony over internet: Xi Jinping

In a veiled attack on the US, Chinese President Xi Jinping today said no nation should pursue “Internet hegemony” and asserted that countries have the right to independently choose their own path of cyber development and regulations. Addressing the opening ceremony of Second World Internet Conference attended by executives of global and Chinese cyber companies, Xi lashed out at “double standards” in safeguarding cyber security and called for governments to cooperate in regulating Internet use. “No country should pursue cyber hegemony, interfere in other countries’ internal affairs or engage in, connive at or support cyber activities that undermine other countries’ national security,” Xi said at the government-organised conference in Wuzhen of east China’s Zhejiang Province. He called for fostering “a peaceful, secure, open and cooperative cyberspace” and building of “a multilateral, democratic and transparent global Internet governance system.   “Countries have the right to independently choose their own path of cyber development and model of cyber regulations,” the Chinese President said in an apparent defence to criticism over the ban of international social outlets like Twitter and Facebook in the country. He said nations should work together to prevent and oppose the misuse of cyberspace for crimes such as terrorism, […]

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