Prez Xi says won't close doors of web, ideologue calls for tight control

Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Sunday the country will not close its door to the global internet, but that cyber sovereignty is key in its vision of internet development. Xi’s comments were read by Huang Kunming, head of the Chinese Communist Party's publicity department at the country's largest public cyber policy forum in the town of Wuzhen in eastern China. "The development of China's cyberspace is entering a fast lane...China's doors will only become more and more open," said Xi in  the note. Cyber sovereignty is the idea that states should be permitted to manage and contain their own