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The Chinese Communist Party\u2019s foreign influence work is not reduced<\/a> to one single dedicated organ; instead, state, party and military agencies have fronts that engage in influence operations and are led by CCP\u2019s top leadership. Identifying the leaders responsible for coordinating these systems of organs helps to understand how the influence work is being carried out.<\/p>\n

As we explain in our new ASPI report, China\u2019s cyber vision<\/em><\/a>, cyber policy in China is developed and implemented within a highly organised, national policy system. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), a new interagency regulator responsible for managing internet information and content throughout the country, has its roots in the former Party Office of External Propaganda.<\/p>\n

Today, the director of the State Internet Information Office (SIIO; the state name for the CAC), Zhuang Rongwen, simultaneously serves as the deputy minister of the Central Propaganda Department, indicating the ability of the propaganda apparatus to harness greater control over online content.<\/p>\n

Indicating the overlap between the propaganda and cyber systems, China\u2019s recent efforts<\/a> to build a \u2018civilised\u2019 internet seek to use the internet as a platform for disseminating party ideology. Zhuang announced that these efforts were critical in building a \u2018modern socialist country\u2019.<\/p>\n

As an agency that\u2019s now at the forefront of work to achieve President Xi Jinping\u2019s vision of turning China into a \u2018cyber superpower\u2019 and using that power to shape domestic and international discourse, the close ties the CAC has to the Central Propaganda Department raise critical questions about the intentions of the agency as it aims to turn its cyber governance system into a model for others in the international community.<\/p>\n

Under the CCP\u2019s strategy to become a cyber superpower, China must have the ability to shape cyberspace by setting the rules, values and norms of the internet. There\u2019s an acknowledgement by the CCP, however, that China can\u2019t yet do that unilaterally.<\/p>\n

Consequently, cyber power for Beijing requires developing and harnessing China\u2019s technological capabilities to achieve self-reliance in addition to manufacturing an international consensus on its ideas about global internet governance.<\/p>\n

The goal of China\u2019s quest for cyber superpower status is ultimately for the internet outside of Beijing\u2019s jurisdiction to eventually adapt to the economic development, social management and national security priorities of the CCP.<\/p>\n

To work towards this goal, China\u2019s cyber policy system has adopted practices that aim to co-opt international organisations and cultivate foreign allies. Those practices include CCP institutions hosting international conferences and exchanges to promote and build support for two related concepts: \u2018internet sovereignty\u2019 and a \u2018community of common destiny for cyberspace\u2019. Showing other states how they can use cyberspace to shape and repress dissenting voices in their own societies is a part of those co-opting strategies.<\/p>\n

The World Internet Conference is one forum that aims to build international consensus on the CCP\u2019s vision for the internet, operating under the CCP\u2019s ideal that countries should cooperate to strive to build a community of a common destiny for cyberspace.<\/p>\n

By hosting the World Internet Conference and developing other platforms, the CCP claims that it\u2019s able to \u2018promote fairer and more equitable global internet governance\u2019. Under the concept of building a community of common destiny for cyberspace, Xi proposes providing \u2018Chinese solutions for global internet development and governance\u2019. This is a China-centred vision for cyberspace, just as the Belt and Road Initiative is a China-centred vision for the world\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n

Under Xi\u2019s proposal for global shared governance, China would have access to international governance mechanisms and platforms for controlling and monitoring cyberspace. If implemented, that would have significant ramifications for the world\u2019s internet freedoms.<\/p>\n

As Xi mentioned in a speech in 2015, the internet is a powerful tool for information dissemination and social governance (also called \u2018social management\u2019). Social management relies on shaping, managing and controlling the operating environment, which would be enabled through Xi\u2019s concept of shared governance of cyberspace.<\/p>\n

When approaching the topic of internet co-governance and development strategies with China, countries should consider the future of cyberspace and what information should be shared, and even controlled, by countries such as China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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