These days, China is “forum shopping” its cyber sovereignty vision anywhere it can: from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to the Human Rights Council, China has been showing consistency and persistence in its messaging and strategy. The need for a specific and positive vision is made all the more urgent by the lack of a US privacy regime, Europe’s leading role in internet regulation, growing frustrations at Silicon Valley’s global influence, and (reductive) perceptions that the American, 2010-era “internet freedom” agenda was code for US tech hegemony. By crafting a more positive, specific vision around the UN’s Global Digital Compact, the US can help advance a more global and open internet for the future.