<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_43723" style="display: block;"><div style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_43722"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_43721"><div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_43720"><div id="yiv8737957221"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_43719"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_43718"><h1 id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_25878" style="margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:83.5313px;border:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.18;font-family:knowledge-medium, sans-serif;font-size:40px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(63, 63, 64);">China's Xi says country will not close door to global internet</h1><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_26020" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:83.5313px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-family:freight-book, serif;font-size:20px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(49, 49, 50);">"WUZHEN, China (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Sunday the country will not close its door to the global internet, but that cyber sovereignty is key in its vision of internet development.....“The development of China’s cyberspace is entering a fast lane...China’s doors will only become more and more open,” said Xi in the note. Cyber sovereignty is the idea that states should be permitted to manage and contain their own internet without external interference. China’s Communist Party has tightened cyber regulation in the past year, formalizing new rules that require firms to store data locally and censor tools that allow users to subvert the Great Firewall. In June, China introduced a new national cybersecurity law that requires foreign firms to store data locally and submit to data surveillance measures."</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_26020" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:83.5313px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-family:freight-book, serif;font-size:20px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(49, 49, 50);">"China has advocated strongly for a larger role in global internet governance under Xi. “China stands ready to develop new rules and systems of internet governance to serve all parties and counteract current imbalances,” said Wang Huning, a member of the Communist Party standing committee at the event on Sunday."<br clear="none" id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_26474"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_26020" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:83.5313px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-family:freight-book, serif;font-size:20px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(49, 49, 50);"><span id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_26584" style="font-size:xx-large;">A nation on a bold mission that is boldly declares! Even with the transition, and perhaps out of it, we expect more nations to demand a legitimate sit on the "Internet development table" or chisel out newer tables or both.</span><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_26020" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:83.5313px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-family:freight-book, serif;font-size:20px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(49, 49, 50);"><span id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_26780" style="font-size:xx-large;">It should not pass unnoticed that we now have a common term "global internet" meaning that this may be acceptance that there may be fragments of it or a much bigger one or an attempt by the Internet Governance ecosystem to insist that the "global internet" is the Internet.</span></div><div id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_26020" 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id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_28071" style="margin:0px auto 60px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;position:relative;max-width:1200px;"><div id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_28072" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;"><div id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_28074" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;overflow:hidden;background-position:50% center;background-size:cover;width:729.063px;min-height:485.547px;z-index:0;background-image:none;"><div id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_28075" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;position:relative;z-index:1;min-height:485.547px;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:center center;background-size:cover;"></div></div><span id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_28077" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;width:510.344px;color:rgb(49, 49, 50);">Chinese magazines featuring China's President Xi Jinping on the cover are seen during the fourth World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, China, December 3, 2017. REUTERS/Aly Song</span></div></div><div id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_28078" style="margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:83.5313px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-family:freight-book, serif;font-size:20px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(49, 49, 50);">Xi’s comments were read by Huang Kunming, head of the Chinese Communist Party’s publicity department at the country’s largest public cyber policy forum in the town of Wuzhen in eastern China.</div><div id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_28079" style="margin:45px 0px 45px 83.5313px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;position:relative;"><div id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_28080" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;"></div></div><div id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_28081" style="margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:83.5313px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-family:freight-book, serif;font-size:20px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(49, 49, 50);">“The development of China’s cyberspace is entering a fast lane...China’s doors will only become more and more open,” said Xi in the note.</div><div id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_28082" style="margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:83.5313px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-family:freight-book, serif;font-size:20px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(49, 49, 50);">Cyber sovereignty is the idea that states should be permitted to manage and contain their own internet without external interference.</div><div id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_28083" style="margin:45px 0px 45px 83.5313px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;position:relative;"><div id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_28084" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;"></div></div><div id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_28085" style="margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:83.5313px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-family:freight-book, serif;font-size:20px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(49, 49, 50);">China’s Communist Party has tightened cyber regulation in the past year, formalizing new rules that require firms to store data locally and censor tools that allow users to subvert the Great Firewall.</div><div id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_28086" style="margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:83.5313px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-family:freight-book, serif;font-size:20px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(49, 49, 50);">In June, China introduced a new national cybersecurity law that requires foreign firms to store data locally and submit to data surveillance measures.</div><div id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_28087" style="margin:60px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;"><div id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_28089" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;overflow:hidden;background-position:50% center;background-size:cover;width:729.063px;min-height:485.547px;z-index:0;background-image:none;"><div id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_28090" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;position:relative;z-index:1;min-height:485.547px;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:center center;background-size:cover;"></div></div><span id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_28092" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;width:510.344px;color:rgb(49, 49, 50);">People look at Xiao Qiao robots during the fourth World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, China, December 3, 2017. REUTERS/Aly Song</span></div><div id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_28093" style="margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:83.5313px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-family:freight-book, serif;font-size:20px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(49, 49, 50);">Cyber regulators say the laws are in line with international rules, and that they are designed to protect personal privacy and counter attacks on core infrastructure. Business groups say the rules unfairly target foreign firms.</div><div id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_28094" style="margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:83.5313px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-family:freight-book, serif;font-size:20px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(49, 49, 50);">China has advocated strongly for a larger role in global internet governance under Xi.</div><div id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_28105" style="margin-top:52px;margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:83.5313px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-family:freight-book, serif;font-size:20px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(49, 49, 50);"><span style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;">The conference, which is overseen by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) invited foreign executives, Apple Inc’s CEO Tim Cook and Google Inc chief Sundar Pichai as well as a Facebook Inc executive.</span>“China stands ready to develop new rules and systems of internet governance to serve all parties and counteract current imbalances,” said Wang Huning, a member of the Communist Party standing committee at the event on Sunday.</div><div id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_28107" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;"></div><div id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_28108" style="margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:83.5313px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-family:freight-book, serif;font-size:20px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(49, 49, 50);">Google and Facebook are banned in China, along with Twitter Inc and most major western news outlets.</div><div id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_28109" style="margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:83.5313px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-family:freight-book, serif;font-size:20px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(49, 49, 50);">Top executives from Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, Tencent Holdings Ltd and Baidu Inc also attended the forum.</div><div id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_28110" style="margin:35px 0px 0px 83.5313px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:freight-book, serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_28111" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:26px;font-family:inherit;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(113, 115, 117);">Editing by Jacqueline Wong</div></div></div></div></div></div></div> <div class="yiv8737957221yqt6148424966" id="yiv8737957221yqtfd48997"><div class="yiv8737957221qtdSeparateBR" id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_27511"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv8737957221yahoo_quoted" id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_27740" style="display:block;"> <div id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_27739" style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"> <div id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_27738" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px;"> <div dir="ltr" id="yiv8737957221yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512364547502_27737"><br clear="none"></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>