Great Powers in Cyberspace: The Strategic Drivers Behind US, Chinese and Russian Competition
By Matthew Bey
| December 18, 2018
Earlier this year the Pentagon released its first National Defense Strategy in a decade. The document put the long-term great power competition between the United States and what it calls two revisionist powers, China and Russia, at the forefront. Russia’s global influence on the global stage has been steadily resurging over the past ten years, culminating with its intervention in Ukraine in 2014,and China, likewise, has regained its historical status as a global power after its so-called century of humiliation. Though the United States’ attention has been elsewhere– namely on the Middle East and the Global War on Terrorism – for much of this time,it is now renewing its focus on its near peers in a return to the status quo.
Great Powers in Cyberspace: The Strategic Drivers Behind US, Chinese and Russian Competition