Lu’s remarks, made ahead of the Second World Internet Conference in Wuhan in eastern Zhejiang Province on Wednesday, come amid rising pressures on the Chinese government over cybersecurity.
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“The global community must enhance dialog and cooperation on the basis of mutual respect and trust”, President Xi Jinping said.
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“No country should pursue cyber hegemony, interfere in other nation’s internal affairs, or engage in, connive at or support cyber activities that undermine the national security of other countries”, he added.
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Those efforts are aimed at maintaining stability, a lack of which the Communist Party sees as a direct threat to its rule.
Delegates gathering for breakfast at the World Internet Conference in China will no doubt be discussing the Chinese president’s call for more regulation of the internet.
“China wants to legitimize its vision of a bordered Internet, an worldwide Internet rather than a global one”, where each country is able to set its own rules and restrictions. “This is an all-out assault on Internet freedoms”, said Roseann Rife, East Asia Research Director at Amnesty International.
An October report by the American pro-democracy think tank Freedom House found that China has the most restrictive Internet policies of 65 countries studied, ranking below Iran and Syria. “We can not just have the security of one or some countries while leaving the rest insecure”, Xi said, repeating a mantra he has applied to the USA alliance network as well. To promote equity and justice, Xi proposed building an Internet governance system which features a multilateral approach with multi-party participation.
China is known for censoring online content deemed to be politically sensitive, blocking certain Western websites and social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
At last year’s Wuzhen conference, organizers tried unsuccessfully to persuade global Internet companies to endorse a call for the world community to “respect Internet sovereignty” and “spread positive energy”.
The non-governmental organisation Reporters Without Borders continues to be encouraging authorities and foreign businesses because their presence, it says, makes them complicit in a censorship regime in which almost 40 journalists are in prison for work to avoid the summit.
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The conference attracted executives from United States tech giants, including Facebook, Microsoft, IBM, LinkedIn and Netflix. And in a sign of China’s growing assertiveness on the internet, the paper suggested that China’s “experiments” in creating a different definition of internet freedom were attracting interest from many countries that it said were alienated by the current “U.S. dominated” model. And he said China was willing to help other countries learn from its development of the internet.
