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Five Day Lecture Series on US-China Cyber Relations and its Future Starts Today
For 15 years Dr William Foster researched US-China Cyber Relations and now believes that it is important to to view the current US-China online relationship in the context of the interaction over the past 25 years of technical, cultural and bureaucratic dimensions of the Internet in China. His research has brought up some essential questions such as, “Will the Chinese ever again back the Fed the way they did in 2008 during the Housing crisis?”, “Is there a cyber war going on between the US and China, and who is winning?” and “What is Russia’s involvement in this?”
Dr. Foster will discuss the possibility of a cyber war that has begun between the U.S. and China. It is critical that we understand whether the Chinese people and their leadership are becoming more “militantly nationalistic” because of the internet, or if they are becoming committed to planetary sustainability and “universal values”.
Dr. Foster’s focus will be following five inflection points in the evolution of the internet in China and explaining how the Internet has been shaped by Chinese culture and bureaucracy:
Day 1: The Birth of the Internet in China: Hopes and Fears
Day 2: The battle in China for who would own and control the Internet-
Day 3: How the People’s Liberation Army views the Internet in China as a tool for cyber espionage against militantly aggressive forces in the U.S.
Day 4: China leverages its telecom market to create vicious competition among ministries and their proteges.
Day 5: The future of US-China cyber Relations
These lectures are very important financially and politically as they delve deeply into a very real issue between two great superpowers and the war they are having on a very big medium, the internet.
Lectures will be held from today, Monday June 23, to Friday June 27 in Room 420 of the Goizueta Business School at Emory University (1300 Clifton Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30322) between 12p-1p and Broadcast Online.
About Dr. William Foster
Dr. William Foster got his PhD and studied at University of Arizona under Dr. Sy Goodman. His PhD dissertation on the Diffusion of the Internet in China was published in 2001 by CISAC at Stanford. Sy’s research team, the MOSAIC Group, has studied Internet diffusion in 40 countries.
Dr. Foster was in charge of government for the Commercial Internet Exchange, the world’s first ISP association. He then taught information systems at Arizona State University and then left to found the Institute for Next Generation Internet.
