Information Technology

China and Cybersecurity

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The information revolution has been a mixed blessing for China and the world. On one hand, computer networks have enhanced economic productivity, national security, and social interaction. In 2009 alone the Internet contributed to 2.6% of gross domestic product (GDP) growth in China and 3.8% in the United States. The Internet contribution to GDP growth from 2004 to 2009 averaged 21% for mature industrialized countries like the United States and Germany and a more modest 3% for high-growth industrializers like China and India, which suggests that the Internet is poised to become even more important as China matures.1 China has leveraged information technology to integrate its firms into the global economy and modernize its infrastructure, and increasing Internet penetration has helped to boost export-led growth.2 China’s pursuit of “informatization” is not only remaking industrial sectors but also guiding the transformation of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) from a backwards conscript force into a formidable regional power. China has one of the fastest growing Internet populations in the world with 600 million users or “netizens” as of 2013, a quarter of them from rural regions.3 To the degree that civil society exists in China at all, it exists on the Internet, even as the government censors content online. By 2012 nearly a quarter of the global Internet population (23%) was in China, more than double the next largest Internet nation, the United States (10%), and more than the entire
[ 2 ] Jon R. Lindsay
European Union (15%).4 Cyberspace continues to be an important enabler of China’s emergence as a great power in the twenty-first century.

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: ., 2015

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1-401

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English

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978–0–19–020127–2

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China and Cybersecurity

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