USA, China and Essential Focus on Strategic Cyberwarfare

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Authors: Vasilieva I. S.

Annotation: The current dependence of the information and cyber component has made our civilization much more vulnerable. The speed and wide dissemination of information technologies and networks have caused a tremendous increase in information and cybernetic arms power. With the growing role of cyberwarfare in the international politics, leadership in cyber sphere is one of the main ways to achieve national strategies. Being geopolitical opponents in reaching superiority in world cyberspace – USA and China are the key leaders in charge of cyberwarfare. In the paper the definition, initial priorities of cyberwarfare, along with development of the cyber strategies of USA and China, their balance of power and future coexistence are revealed.

Keywords: cyberwarfare, security, usa, china, national strategies, cyber command, information warfare