Security News > 2023 > September > China's national security minister rates fake news among most pressing cyber threats

Chinese minister for national security Chen Yixin has penned an article rating the digital risks his country faces and rated network security incidents as the most realistic source of harm to the Chinternet - both in terms of attacks and the dissemination of fake news.

The article appeared in China Cyberspace, the official organ of regulator the Cyberspace Administration of China.

Chen's article rates "Increasingly fierce competition between great powers in cyberspace" as the most significant competitive threat China faces in the digital domain.

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The best ways for China to respond to those threats, he wrote, is to follow the party line, achieve breakthroughs in fields like quantum computing, and just get better at IT governance and security.

Universities must improve and China needs "a reliable and controllable security barrier."

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