China’s Cyber Policies // Juha A. Vuori Professor of International Politics Tampere University
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he People’s Republic of China can be counted among the top three in the great power deployment of cyber capabilities both in their military strategies and intelligence activities. China’s brand in cyber espionage has been the gathering of industrial and other economically viable information for the benefit of China’s
military complex and other branches of industry. China’s policy in this regard has been seen as shifting since around the mid-2010s though. This change coincided with the revelation of severe weaknesses in the cyber security of China’s cyber operations in the form of the Mandiant report and the Snowden leaks. These prompted president
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