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US-China Cyber Relations Day Two: Fighting for Control of the Internet in China
As many of us know, a lot of the services and products in China are controlled by the government, but the deeper you go it becomes a lot more complicated. For one thing, the government as a whole does not control everything, rather it is broken up into government run ministries that control certain things. When China began connecting to the internet there started a vicious competition between these ministries for which one would control it. On Tuesday June 24, starting at 12pm, Dr. William Foster will shed some light on who won, what this means for us today and what this may mean for us in the future.
This lecture is a part of a five part lecture series on US-China Cyber Relations by Dr. Foster. 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?”
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
In 2008, the housing bubble burst and we could have fallen into a deep long lasting depression. One of the factors that helped the U.S. was that the Chinese agreed not to call in loans and many still believe the Chinese would never let the American Dollar fail. However, due to the cyber war between the US and China, that is no longer a safe assumption. These lectures provide the background necessary to solve this new dilemma now faced by the US.
Lectures continue tomorrow Tuesday June 24, 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.
