http://www.nationalinterest.org/feature/will-china-america-clash-cyberspace-12607
By Jon R. Lindsay, Tai Ming Cheung, Derek Reveron
The National Interest
April 12, 2015
The information revolution has been a mixed blessing for China and the
world. On one hand, computer networks enhance economic productivity,
national security, and social interaction. On the other, valuable
information infrastructure provides lucrative targets for thieves, spies,
and soldiers. Nearly every type of government agency, commercial firm, and
social organization benefits from information technology, but they can
also be harmed through cyberspace. Not a week goes by where a major hack
is not reported in the media or countries chastise each other for
cyberespionage.
In the absence of shared norms or even concepts, cybersecurity discourse
becomes mired in competing morality tales. Chinese hackers are pillaging
intellectual property and creating asymmetric threats. The National
Security Agency (NSA) is jeopardizing civil liberties and weakening the
Internet. Communist censorship is undermining the democratic promise of
information technology, even as American firms unfairly dominate its
development. Cybercrime is costing everyone trillions of dollars.
There is a grain of truth in all of these claims, which means that the
phenomenon as a whole must be more complicated than any one suggests.
China both generates and experiences serious cyber threats, shaped by a
combination of bureaucratic politics and economic policy, domestic
security imperatives, military modernization, and ambitions for
international influence. Nevertheless, the United States and China both
have far more to gain than lose through their digital interdependence.
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