UNIDIR Cyber Policy Portal Database

China’s Positions on International Rules-making in Cyberspace 09/08/2022, 19:59 dependence on their products, nor force users to upgrade their systems and devices. Products providers should make a commitment to notifying their cooperation partners and users of serious vulnerabilities in their products in a timely fashion and offering remedies. v. States should step up cooperation against cyber terrorism. States should prohibit terrorist organizations from using the Internet to set up websites, online forums and blogs to conduct terrorist activities, including manufacturing, publication, storage and broadcasting of terrorist audio and video documents, disseminating violent terrorist rhetoric and ideology, fund-raising, recruiting, inciting terrorist activities, etc. States should conduct intelligence exchanges and lawenforcement cooperation, and develop cooperative partnership with international organizations, enterprises and citizens in countering cyber terrorism. States should request Internet service providers to cut off the online dissemination channel of terrorist content by closing propaganda websites and accounts and deleting terrorist and violent extremist content. III. The international community, with a view to maintaining international peace and security, should undertake discussions within the framework of the UN on how international law applies to the use of ICTs by States, taking into account the unique attributes of ICTs, and further develop common understandings on this issue. The UN Charter and the principles enshrined in it, including sovereign equality, refraining from the use or threat of force, settlement of international disputes by peaceful means and non-intervention in the internal affairs of other States, apply in cyberspace. The application of these principles is the cornerstone of the peace, security and stability in cyberspace. States should handle the applicability of the law of armed conflicts and jus ad bellum with prudence, and prevent escalation of conflicts or turning cyberspace into a new battlefield. To maintain long-lasting peace and stability in cyberspace, new international legal instruments tailored to the attributes of ICTs and evolving realities should be developed based on broad participation of all States. Cyber terrorism imposes significant threat on national security and social stability of States, which could be considered as an important direction for new legal instruments. IV. States can conduct policy and technical exchanges, law-enforcement cooperation and information sharing on a voluntary basis to enhance mutual trust and reduce misperception and miscalculation. For realizing fair, reasonable and universal access to the Internet, popularization of ICTs, equal sharing of digital dividends and global common and sustainable development, international cooperation and assistance on ICT security should be promoted. States should step up cooperation on emergency response capabilities. States should not conduct malicious cyber activities against the State which is seeking the assistance or a third State under the pretext of providing assistance. V. China supports the establishment of an inclusive and sustainable process with broad participation of all States within the framework of the UN to deal with the issue of cybersecurity, and welcomes the 2021 report of the Open-ended Working Group on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications. States should observe and implement previous international consensus, including norms, rules and principles for responsible State behavior, and formulate new international norms and rules on issues such as data security in compliance with the evolving situation and technological development. China is ready to work together with all parties to promote positive progress of the Open-Ended Working Group 2021-2025, and to build a community of shared future in cyberspace. Suggest to a friend Please enter E-mail E Print Please enter keywords Copyright©1998-2014, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the People's Republic of China Contact us Address: No. 2, Chaoyangmen Nandajie, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100701 Tel: 86-10-65961114 https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjb_663304/zzjg_663340/jks_665232/kjlc_665236/qtwt_665250/202110/t20211020_9594981.html Page 2 of 2