Let us join hands to make Internet safe

With the Safer Internet Day being observed on Feb 7, it's time for more countries to join hands and make concerted efforts to enhance Internet safety. Unfortunately, China is still often accused of cyber espionage. Such baseless accusations will only create a lose-lose situation and increase suspicion and misunderstanding among countries and regions, while the real troublemakers will go scot-free.

Such perverse accusations ignore two basic facts.

First, China's network to some extent is "non-defensive", because it lags far behind its Western counterparts in mastering the advanced technology of telecommunication, Internet application and services, and in securing crucial infrastructure and important information networks. Online security experts have pointed out many of China's weak points in cyber security, especially its heavy dependence on Western core technology and low self-defense capacity.