This book offers the first benchmarking study of China's response to the problems of security
in cyber space. There are several useful descriptive books on cyber security policy in China
published between 2010 and 2016. As a result we know quite well the system for managing cyber
security in China and the history of policy responses. What we don't know so well and where
this book is useful is how capable China has become in this domain relative to the rest of the
world. This book is a health check a report card on China's cyber security system in the face
of escalating threats from criminal gangs and hostile states. The book also offers an
assessment of the effectiveness of China's efforts. It lays out the major gaps and shortcomings
in China's cyber security policy. It is the first book to base itself around an assessment of
China's cyber industrial complex concluding that China does not yet have one. As Xi Jinping
said in July 2016 the country's core technologies are dominated by foreigners.
