Chinese Leader Calls for Global Governance of Cyberspace

President Xi’s visions for China’s development have never been China centric only he has always been a staunch supporter of the greater good and that is why he advocated these sovereign rights for all countries, he believes that no nation should dominate and control this globally shared basic right.

The state is also known to pay armies of people, known colloquially as the “50 Cent Party”, to post pro-government messages and drown out negative commentary on bulletin boards and in the comments sections of news articles. On Monday, authorities tried Pu Zhiqiang, one of the country’s most prominent civil rights lawyers, for sending seven tweets.

“This is an all-out assault on internet freedoms”, she said. “It covers all aspects of state-to-state relations, which also includes cyberspace” and he encouraged the global Internet community to respect each other’s sovereignty.

“What [Xi] really meant by that, is that there should be tough restrictions on the ability for citizens of each countries to express themselves”, says Maya Wang, an expert with rights group Human Rights Watch.

Mr Xi couched his comments as reflecting a common desire among governments to crack down on terrorism, money laundering, cybertheft and criminal activity online.

With around 670 million users and over 4.13 million websites in China, the Internet and economic and social development have become intrinsically linked.

The end goal of this tactic is, according to Franz-Stefan Gady of the East West Institute, to “gain de jure worldwide support for China’s de facto Internet censorship policies”.

The president said the world has a desire to establish a governance system which is multilateral, democratic and transparent.

China’s ruling Communist Party retains tight control over Internet use in the country, blocking material it deems obscene or subversive.

Senior executives at the tech companies said on Thursday that the Internet of Things – a network of physical objects or “things” embedded with electronics, software, sensors and network connectivity – will further change lives in China. “We warmly welcome enterprises and entrepreneurs to invest in China, as long as they are in accordance with Chinese laws”, Xi emphasized in his speech. Many other countries were represented by locally based diplomats.

The Chinese president made the call during his keynote speech to the World Internet Conference in China. Foreign diplomats say such a declaration was put under their hotel room doors on the last night of the conference previous year, but they refused to sign it. “But I think, no matter what, under regulation the country produced 700 million Internet users, BAT, and numerous innovations, and there’s still a lot for us to learn and rethink”.

The official Global Times newspaper on Wednesday dismissed “news and information freedom” as a “detail, a small corner” of the “vast field of internet freedom”. “We should encourage countries to develop their own Internet services suitable for their own environments”, he added.

Google, for example, violated a written promise made when entering the Chinese market by not filtering its search services and then blaming China by insinuation for alleged hacker attacks.