Het idee dat China van het internet een Chinees territorium zou maken is niet eenvoudig voorstelbaar, maar pogingen daartoe zijn uitgelekt.

En dat alles onder direct commando van parijleider Xi JinPing.

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.

Het is een project dat ook al vier jaar gaande is:

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.

En als de ambities voor wat met het internet te doen exemplarisch zijn voor de Chinese attitude tegenover de rest van de wereld, dan mogen we wel juichen als het binnenkort helemaal plat zou worden gegooid door de good old USA:

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.

Anders gezegd: het wordt binnenkort tijd om Chinees te leren:

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.

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