The retired officer, the new department of the US State Department is about to lead the US State Department

On September 15, local time, the Senate of the United States Congress appointed Nazanier Fik to the newly established network space and Digital Policy Agency (CDP, Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy).

At the end of October last year, U.S. Secretary of State Bringson announced the establishment of a new institution of the US State Department, saying that the purpose was to "help solve the diplomatic problems of the network and emerging technologies", and "ensure that values ​​are considered into the US network space and digital policies, and the promotion can continue to support the United States to continue to support the United States Digital Technology Vision of Values ​​". On April 4 this year, the agency was officially launched, and three policy units were set up, which were international network space security, digital freedom, and international information and communication policies.

Nazanier Phils

The appointed Natanil Fick was the retired U.S. Marine Corps officer. He had participated in the Afghanistan and Iraq war. He wrote a memoir "A Bullets Away: Growth of the Marine Corps officer" by his own experience. The New York Times was rated as a bestseller.

From 2009 to 2012, Fick served as CEO of the New American Security Center (CNAS). During this period, he started the center's technology and national security plan. Since 2012, he has been the CEO of Endgame (Inc.), the Cyber ​​Security Software Company.

On June 3 this year, U.S. President Biden officially nominated Nazanier Fik to the first network space and digital policy bureau tour ambassador. The appointment was officially approved on the 15th.

Come back

Network space and digital policy bureau are not a new institution in the strict sense.

According to the U.S. State Council's governance of network space, its predecessor was "the Office of the Coordinator of Network Issues", which was established during the period of Obama in 2011. During Trump's term, it was announced by the then Secretary of State Tillerson on August 28, 2017 to be incorporated into the Economic and Commercial Affairs Bureau of the US State Council. Pompeo once tried to rebuild similar institutions at the end of his term, that is, network space security and emerging technical bureau, claiming that "the challenges of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, and other networks and emerging technology competitors to US national security."

However, this proposal with obvious cold war was attacked by the United States. Democrats believe that Pompeo's design is only "too narrow" in national security. Pitter, who had previously served as the head of the coordinator of the Internet Issue, also issued a sarcastic on social networks: "It is ridiculous that he has not been considered to be prioritized for 4 years, but it must be completed at the last moment without having coordination. "But with Trump's steps down, the proposal was no longer there.

After the Biden government came to power, the US State Department began to restart network security agencies and re -incorporate network space governance into the key catalog of institutional reform. However, from the perspective of the level architecture, the person in charge of the network bureau is the same as the office of the coordinator of its predecessor's network issues, but the initial report of the report from the Secretary of State to the Deputy Secretary of State. "mean.

According to the data released by the US State Department, the network space and digital policy bureau emphasize digital modernization in the federal field, focusing on the three major areas of national network security, information economy development and digital technology. In order to ensure the establishment and operation of the Network Bureau, the government proposed a budget of $ 37 billion; the U.S. Council will equip them with 100 new personnel.

The truth under "sugar coat"

According to the US State Department, the purpose of the establishment of the network space and the digital policy bureau is to provide more diplomats and professional knowledge for the preferred matters of the State Council, such as formulating the standard of government behavior of the network space to help American allies strengthen its own network security plan, etc. The timing is worth noting.

Since the outbreak of the Russian and Ukraine conflict, the United States has repeatedly emphasized that "it will not directly occur with Russia", but it has ended in the network space and even rushed to the front line of the Russian -Ukraine conflict. Together with the network warfare, its extensive and influence may exceed any country's control, and occupying the technological advantage means that it can occupy the absolute dominance of the cyber warfare.

Earlier, the specific invasion operations of the National Security Agency used more than 40 different exclusive cyber attack weapons, continued to attack the stealing of the Northwestern Polytechnical University of China, and also broke the technical advantages of the United States to continue to use unilaterally transparent. Specific countries affect and destroy.

In describing the role of the new network space and digital policy bureau, Brinken stated that what happened in Ukraine and Russia showed that the essence of competition between countries is to define the rules, infrastructure and standards of digital future. Brinken claims that democratic countries must answer such a question together whether universal rights and democratic values ​​will become the center of our digital life, and whether digital technology can bring real benefits to people's lives.

In other words, the Russian conflict made the U.S. government aware of the urgency of the establishment of a specialized organization to monopolize the discourse of cyber space, and the essence of the competition in the country in Bollingken's mouth is to define "rules, infrastructure and standards." Throw the number of "sugar coats" that brings real benefits to life in the number of numbers in Brinken. What the United States really wants is to be the makers of these rules and standards.

Nathari Ficc, the first tour ambassador, not only has the security background of the Internet, but also directly participated in the US military invasion of other countries.The cognitive war is one of the important means for the United States to formulate rules for the world.In this regard, the world needs to be highly vigilant.Author 丨 Li Yi, editor -in -chief of Shenzhen Satellite TV Direct News

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