The race is on between the United States and China for economic and technological supremacy . One of the main arenas for this competition is cyberspace, and the two countries have drastically different visions for how to manage it at the global level. While Chinese President Xi Jinping's government has advocated the right of individual nation states to control their own cyberspace and the infrastructure to support it free from foreign interference, the United States supports a more liberal model. U.S. policy promotes open access to the internet and condemns government censorship. Washington, moreover, considers Beijing's calls for cyber sovereignty disingenuous, since China still uses cyber espionage as a tool against other countries, violating the very principles it purports to espouse. Moral arguments aside, the fact is that the United States and China will keep using the internet and cyberspace against each other.