The American Electronic Diplomacy Strategy In The Information Age

The rapid development of information technology leads to an undergonerevolutionary innovation on the human being’s traditional economy, political,military, diplomatic and other activities, accompany with this revolution, the Cyberdiplomacy comes into being as a product of information technology and traditionalforeign coupling. The United States of Amercia, with its world-leading informationand network technology first put forward the of concept of "Cyber diplomacystrategy” and put it in practice gong forward, its purpose is to seize the opportunitiesin the new era of competition among countries and continue to maintain its hegemonyin the world.Google’s exit from China Market triggered lots of exploration and concerns fromChina side on American Cyber diplomacy strategy, as a new form of diplomacy, theCyber diplomacyimpacts our understanding on the state power, national relationship.Generally speaking, Cyber diplomacy of the United States has experienced threestages: military use、propaganda and public diplomacy、strategy application in theinformation age, and in the information age it possesses the characteristics ofdiversification, flexibility etc.. The United States government especially the Obamaadministration vigorously pursues Cyber diplomatic strategy, the political motivehidden in this strategy is to enhance the output of American democracy, improve theimage of the USA. maintain its hegemony in the world; and another motivation is thatthe United States as the birthplace of Internet, grasp the most advanced informationtechnology and resources. In order to implement Cyber diplomacy, the U.S.government established a comprehensive mechanism, which was repeatedly appliedto the real foreign affairs with a good results. China should and must learnfromAmerica, and actively explore and develop Cyber diplomatic strategywithcharacteristics of China.