Cyberwar? The US and China

Abstract

This paper is the culmination of a great deal of research and effort designed to explore a gap that currently exists between cyber research and international relations. The purpose of choosing the United States and China as the case study is to make this paper as topical as possible by addressing the conflict between the United States, the preeminent global superpower, and the rising power of China, both of which are currently locked in a number of conflicts.In its attempt to bridge the gap between the cyber and international relations fields, this paperintends to begin to explore new ground as to how the creation of the cyber domain might impact international relations. While this paper does focus more heavily on the cyber side of this gap, it is hoped that future papers will build off of this research to further explore our ever-changingsociety and how it might look in the future. This paper will analyze the hard and theoretical data of other researchers in order to build its case that there is currently not an ongoing cyber war between the US and China.