Abstract
There are many useful approaches to evaluating different aspects of a country’s ability to provide for its security in cyberspace. Some focus on more technical aspects, while others include broader social and political issues. This chapter documents several assessments of the state of cybersecurity in China, looking first at Chinese assessments and then at international points of view. The chapter concludes with a discussion of China’s performance against the nine strategic tasks identified by the December 2016 Cybersecurity Strategy and canvassed in Chap. 1.
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Austin, G. (2018). Grading National Cybersecurity. In: Cybersecurity in China. SpringerBriefs in Cybersecurity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68436-9_7
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