Larisa Saveleva Dovgal

Cyber risk reduction within and among China, Russia, the United States and the European Union has become increasingly important, while significantly more challenging. Despite their different threat landscapes, all four cyber actors face similar cyber risks and regulatory challenges, including on terminology, data transfer and trade flows, jurisdictional tensions and penalty enforcement.

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) hosted over 35 experts from China, Russia, the United States and the European Union for a two-day workshop on cyber risk reduction. Held at SIPRI in Stockholm, Sweden, on 12–13 September under the Chatham House Rule, the workshop forms part of a broader SIPRI project supported by the German Federal Foreign Office.

On 11 July SIPRI and the German Federal Foreign Office hosted an Open-Ended Working Group side event at the German Mission in New York to launch a new SIPRI report, ‘Cyber Risk Reduction in China, Russia, the United States and the European Union’. The hybrid panel featured a discussion among Chinese, European, Russian and US experts on their respective definitions and regulatory measures targeting cyber risk reduction.