The Inaugural China-ASEAN Cyber Dialogue was held via video conference on December 7th, 2020, co-chaired by Wang Lei, Coordinator for Cyber Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, and Emmanuel Rey R. Caintic, Assistant Secretary of the Department of Information and Communications Technology of the Republic of the Philippines. Representatives from relevant ministries and agencies of China and all ASEAN member states attended the dialogue, and exchanged views on the general situation in cyberspace, international rules-making including on data security, respective cyber policies and mechanism building, and pragmatic cooperation in cyberspace, etc..