Chinese Leader Xi Jinping Lays out Plan to Control the Global Internet: Leaked Documents

Chinese leader Xi Jinping personally directed the communist regime to focus its efforts to control the global internet, displacing the influential role of the United States, according to internal government documents recently obtained by The Epoch Times.

In a January 2017 speech, Xi said the “power to control the internet” had become the “new focal point of [China’s] national strategic contest,” and singled out the United States as a “rival force” standing in the way of the regime’s ambitions.

The ultimate goal was for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to control all content on the global internet, so the regime could wield what Xi described as “discourse power” over communications and discussions on the world stage.

Xi articulated a vision of “using technology to rule the internet” to achieve total control over every part of the online ecosystem—over applications, content, quality, capital, and manpower.

His remarks were made at the fourth leadership meeting of the regime’s top internet regulator, the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, in Beijing on Jan. 4, 2017, and detailed in internal documents issued by the Liaoning Provincial Government in China’s southeast.

The statements confirm efforts made by Beijing in the past few years to promote its own authoritarian version of the internet as a model for the world.

In another speech given in April 2016, detailed in an internal document by the Anshan City Government in Liaoning Province, Xi confidently proclaimed that in the “struggle” to control the internet, the CCP has transformed from playing “passive defense” to playing both “attack and defense” at the same time.

Having successfully built the world’s most sprawling and sophisticated online censorship and surveillance apparatus, known as the Great Firewall, the CCP under Xi is turning outwards, championing a Chinese internet whose values run counter to the open model advocated by the West. Rather than prioritizing the free flow of information, the CCP’s system centers on giving the state the ability to censor, spy on, and control internet data.



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Weakness breeds cowards.
And I can see this weak Democratic administration turning over much control of the net to the CCP.

Elizabeth Theus wrote:Chinese leader Xi Jinping personally directed the communist regime to focus its efforts to control the global internet, displacing the influential role of the United States, according to internal government documents recently obtained by The Epoch Times.

In a January 2017 speech, Xi said the “power to control the internet” had become the “new focal point of [China’s] national strategic contest,” and singled out the United States as a “rival force” standing in the way of the regime’s ambitions.

The ultimate goal was for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to control all content on the global internet, so the regime could wield what Xi described as “discourse power” over communications and discussions on the world stage.

Xi articulated a vision of “using technology to rule the internet” to achieve total control over every part of the online ecosystem—over applications, content, quality, capital, and manpower.

His remarks were made at the fourth leadership meeting of the regime’s top internet regulator, the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, in Beijing on Jan. 4, 2017, and detailed in internal documents issued by the Liaoning Provincial Government in China’s southeast.

The statements confirm efforts made by Beijing in the past few years to promote its own authoritarian version of the internet as a model for the world.

In another speech given in April 2016, detailed in an internal document by the Anshan City Government in Liaoning Province, Xi confidently proclaimed that in the “struggle” to control the internet, the CCP has transformed from playing “passive defense” to playing both “attack and defense” at the same time.

Having successfully built the world’s most sprawling and sophisticated online censorship and surveillance apparatus, known as the Great Firewall, the CCP under Xi is turning outwards, championing a Chinese internet whose values run counter to the open model advocated by the West. Rather than prioritizing the free flow of information, the CCP’s system centers on giving the state the ability to censor, spy on, and control internet data.



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Now that China has installed their counterpart here in the U.S., I'm sure that Bejing Biden will assist China.

It is not readily apparent that we are at war with China, but we certainly are.

Unfortunately, democrats have put the country in a position where cooperating with our government (by paying taxes, for example) is coopted as cooperation with chicoms, to whom democrats apparently swear allegiance.

Democrats are truly deplorable, and democrat leadership is evil.

Lummy wrote:Unfortunately, democrats have put the country in a position where cooperating with our government (by paying taxes, for example) is coopted  as cooperation with chicoms, to whom democrats apparently swear allegiance.

Democrats are truly deplorable, and democrat leadership is evil.

A criminal operation.

Yes, I believe that case could be made, which is why rotten democrats have to seize all power in every branch.

Our government more readily identifies with other governments than the people it represents -- and that doesn't even take into consideration the chi-com influence in US affairs, both domestic and foreign. Utterly deplorable.

I don't believe that Biden has any plan at all for this eventuality of China-controlled internet.

One assumes that one or more of our illustrious "think tanks" have looked at the developing situation in the best interests of the country, as "war games" or whatever, and are constantly designing an appropriate response for US good, and not as evolving opportunities for monetary exploitation for personal financial gain or to glean more millions for say Harvard and Yale.

Nothing to prevent that.