Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Sunday the country will not close its door to the global internet, but that cyber sovereignty is key in its vision of internet development. Current top breaking Philippine headlines regarding the nation, world, metro manila, regions and exclusive special investigative reports.
WUZHEN, China – Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Sunday the country will not close its door to the global internet, but that cyber sovereignty is key in its vision of internet development. Xi's comments were read by Huang Kunming, head of the Chinese Communist Party's publicity department at the country's largest public cyber policy forum in the town of Wuzhen in eastern China. "The development of China's cyberspace is entering a fast lane… China's doors will only become more and more open," said Xi in the note. Cyber sovereignty is the idea that states should be permitted to manage and contain their own internet without external interference. China's Communist Party has tightened cyber regulation in the past year, formalizing new rules that require firms to store data locally and censor tools that allow users to subvert the Great Firewall.
