Security News > 2023 > March > Xi, Putin, declare intent to rule the world of AI, infosec

Russian president Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have set themselves the goal of dominating the world of information technology.

The rest of the world may never recognize it, as appetite to acquire Russian and Chinese tech outside the two nations and their small circle of allies is not vast.

The full text [in Chinese] of the Joint Statement promises that the two nations will "Explore new cooperation models in technology and industry fields such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, 5G, digital economy, and low-carbon economy."

The two nations also signalled they approve of the United Nations Open Working Group on Security in the Use of Information and Communications Technology 2021-2025 - an open-ended committee that works on norms of cyberspace behavior.

So there you have it: two autocracies planning to work together to build tech the rest of the world is increasingly reluctant to sell them, while also trying to change the rules that govern the internet and acceptable online behavior, and insisting that the repressive philosophies that underpin their vision of those rules must be considered equal to other schools of political thought.

All of which will be helped by increased collaboration on energy resources, sport, the arts, and youth exchanges - to make sure the two nations get along.

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