China vows to protect information security 'using all means'

Beijing

CHINA will use all means necessary to protect its information security, including the use of its military, striking a hard line in the country's first strategic report on cybersecurity.

Zhao Zeliang, director general of the bureau of cybersecurity for the Cyberspace Administration of China, called for a "secure and controllable" Internet at a briefing in Beijing on Tuesday. He unveiled a plan to adopt a review process for all domestic and foreign companies for "key information products and services" before they are deemed safe to be sold or deployed in China's market. Any technologies intended for use by the government, Communist Party organs and major industries will undergo extra scrutiny, he added.