Originally submitted as a Strategy Research Project, this monograph examines the growth of Chinese cyber power and their known and demonstrated capabilities for offensive, defensive and exploitive computer network operations. Comparing China's capacity and potential to the United States' current efforts for cyber security, the author highlights the degree to which the People's Republic of China's cyber power poses a threat to United States' national security and offers proposals to improve future U.S. policy for cyber security and defense.

Cyberspace : increasing dependence, increasing threat -- Cyberspace, cyber power & cyber war -- China : objectives, strategy and cyber power -- American cyber dependency and cyber defense -- Ways ahead for American cyber security -- Living and dealing with China's cyber power.