Analysis of the Cyber Security Strategies of People’s Republic of China

People’s Republic of China (PRC) is the rising power of the international system, considering its large surface area and natural resources, high and efficient population structure, developing economy inclined to technology use, veto power owned in the United Nations’ Security Council, powerful military, and increasing cyber capacity are considered. The PRC has been planning its cyber security strategy within the purposes of enabling economic growth, developing its military capacity, procuring globally newly emerged technologies within cyber espionage operations, and allowing the security and continuation of the current internal system. As a result, the correlation between PRC’s actual cyber security strategies and ancient war concepts, PRC’s laws and regulations, institutional structures, official papers, documents, and plans for cyber security area will be analyzed in this paper. Then, the paper will examine the basic characteristics of the PRC’s cyber security strategy and thus try to establish a perspective on the PRC’s potential cyber security policy in short and medium term