The CCP currently enjoys the best of both worlds. It runs a closed network at home that prevents Chinese citizens from reaching foreign websites and limits Western companies from entering China’s digital market. Yet it also selectively accesses the global Internet to steal intellectual property, meddle in democratic elections, spread propaganda, and hack critical infrastructure. It’s a digital-age version of the Soviet Union’s infamous Brezhnev Doctrine: What’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is up for grabs.
