Given what we know of the NSA's success at pwning much of the Internet, this is an incredibly ironic piece of propaganda.

Indeed, I can't help but agree somewhat with Xi Jinping:

> Finally, China has promoted “cyber-sovereignty” as an organizing principle of Internet governance, in direct opposition to U.S. support for a global, open Internet. In Xi’s words, cyber-sovereignty represents “the right of individual countries to independently choose their own path of cyber development, model of cyber regulation and Internet public policies, and participate in international cyberspace governance on an equal footing.” China envisions a world of national Internets, with government control justified by the sovereign rights of states. It also wants to weaken the bottom-up, private-sector-led model of Internet governance championed by the United States and its allies, a model Beijing sees as dominated by Western technology companies and civil society organizations. Chinese policymakers believe they would have a larger say in regulating information technology and defining the global rules for cyberspace if the UN played a larger role in Internet governance. All four of Beijing’s priorities require China to act aggressively to shape cyberspace at home and on the global stage.

I mean, Brazil and other countries are pursuing "cyber-sovereignty". The EU's GDPR is fundamentally that. As is Google's latest undersea cable.

I have always loved the cypherpunk vision of a sovereign Internet. But that's very different from a US-dominated Internet, which is what we've had since the start.