Despite major differences on cyberspace policy between the United States and China, a recent development at the United Nations illustrates some basic areas of agreement. China is one of 15 countries, including the United States, comprising the UN Group of Government Experts (GGE).
China expresses concern about a "digital divide" between developed countries and developing countries, placing itself in the latter category. Beijing has long viewed the United States as using its position as a leader in global information technology and Internet governance to establish international norms for cyberspace favourable to the United States.
This paper says that the Chinese government states it intends to work with the "international community to promote the building of a peaceful, secure, open, and cooperative cyberspace." Similarly, U.S. government policy is to "work internationally to promote an open, interoperable, secure, and reliable" cyberspace. While this semantic overlap in officially stated goals suggests strong similarities between China and the United States in their viewpoints on international law and norms in cyberspace, they are more different than similar.
China has until recently developed and executed cyber policies without a coordinated approach to cyberspace. Since the early 2010s, however, China has begun to increase interagency coordination on cyber policy. This may be a response to the increasing number and sophistication of Internet users in China, the perceived role of the Internet in fueling social and political movements in China and in the "color revolutions" of the late 2000s, and the growing need to align foreign and domestic policy priorities in cyberspace.
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