The Influence Of Cyberspace On National Security And China's Response

The development of computer information network technology has improved the world's informalization level, which brought in a new man-made virtual space, namely "Cyberspace". The emergence of cyberspace has a profound influence on many aspects of human social lives, such as politics, economy, military and culture fields. But because of the natural characteristics of the cyberspace, for example, the openness, anonymity, symmetry, etc., the more we depend on cyberspace, the more vulnerable the cyberspace will be, which may have an impact on national security. Based on this reason, the security of cyberspace has increasingly drawn much attention from many countries, and the research on the cyberspace has a time meaning.This paper is divided into three chapters:Chapter One lists numerous definitions on cyberspace of the United States or the US army which created the cyberspace, and we analyze the evolution of cyberspace's concepts, their intensions and extensions, then sum up the cyberspace's eight main characteristics. Though there are many definitions of cyberspace, which are still developing and changing, their relevance with information network technology is consistent.Chapter Two, from the security concepts and national security concepts, analyses the center of transformation on the national security and further analyses the significance of cyberspace security which has a far-reaching influence on the national politics, economy, military and cultural security in the information network era. We conclude that, to some extent, the cyberspace security influences the nation's long-term development and the construction of the national situation. For countries, no cyberspace security solutions, there will be no information infrastructure safety guarantee, and there will be no country's sovereignty and national security on cyberspace.Chapter Three firstly expounded the current cyberspace security into four practical problems. On the background of global Internet ever-increasing popularization and application deepening, China has become one of the world's increasingly important Internet development, application and service markets. It is accompanied by some information network problems such as computer viruses and political subversion, information technology development and the information network security stealing which exits to varying degrees in China. If we don't deal with it properly, this may bring in an adverse impact on China's economic, social development and national security. Secondly this chapter put forward our suggestions and countermeasures respectively from the scientific innovation, the legal supervision, international cooperation and talent cultivation and countermeasures.