China boosts cybersecurity efforts, strives to become 'Internet power'

March 01, 2014

China is bolstering its efforts on cybersecurity with a new high-level committee that aims to turn the nation into an “Internet power,” the country’s official state media said last week. Chinese President Xi Jinping is leading the new government body, which first met on Thursday. Xi was quoted as stating that cybersecurity and information technology had become a matter of national security. “Without cybersecurity there is no national security, without information technology there is no modernization,” Xi added. Increasingly, China has found itself embroiled in cybersecurity issues. Over the years, the nation has fended off accusations that it carries out state-sponsored hacking attacks. Those allegations reached fever pitch last year when a U.S. security firm claimed it had documented evidence that China’s military had spearheaded cyberattacks against the U.S.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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