Xi’s government has even tightened controls since he came to power in 2013, operating an extensive Internet monitoring and censorship program dubbed overseas as the “Great Firewall”.
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“The right for countries to participate in worldwide cyberspace governance as equals should be respected by all”. The renowned human rights lawyer faces up to eight years in prison on the charges of “picking quarrels and provoking troubles” and “inciting ethnic hatred”, primarily on the basis of seven social media posts, in total around 600 characters, in which he criticized the government.
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China censors online content it deems to be politically sensitive, while blocking some Western websites and the services of Internet giants including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Google. He also called for a clarification of internet users’ “rights and duties”, and for stronger web ethics and moral guidance online. “No engagement in tolerating or supporting internet activities that damage another country’s national security”, he said.
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He called for fostering “a peaceful, secure, open and cooperative cyberspace” and building of “a multilateral, democratic and transparent global Internet governance system”.
Those efforts are aimed at maintaining stability, a lack of which the Communist Party sees as a direct threat to its rule.
However, there are no common rules of regulating the Internet in the world, he added.
Since he became president, Xi has tightened regulations on China’s more than 650 million Internet users.
The three-day conference in the small eastern town of Wuzhen was attended by a handful of high-profile figures from nations that have been criticised for their records on freedom of speech, including Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev.
The White House had reportedly been weighing the imposition of sanctions against China earlier this year as a result of a cyberattack waged against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and other hacks blamed by and large on Beijing.
Meanwhile, President Xi stressed that China was committed to developing the internet for commercial purposes, emphasizing the potential of big data and online business.
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“Safeguarding the legal rights of foreign-invested businesses will not change”, said Xi. “The countries of the world have made a historic choice,”he told a news briefing at UN Headquarters in NY on his return from attending the so-called COP21 conference in Paris, as he called on Governments to put their pledges into action”. Last year, a draft statement urging the global community to “respect the internet sovereignty of all countries” was slipped at midnight under the doors of attendees’ hotel rooms.
