Digital Silk Road
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Recent papers in Digital Silk Road
The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified the use of digital technologies in the name of public health and safety and vividly illustrated how societies, even democratic ones, can tolerate the expansion of executive power and accept restrictions... more
This report is especially written for audiences in Europe and India, but the findings are equally relevant to global observers. The report offers a big-picture analysis of the Chinese Digital Silk Road’s (DSR) three most strategically... more
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Latin American Nations. Authors: Anant Singh Mann (London School of Economics) & Dipayan Pal (IIT Gandhinagar) Link:... more
This course will explore the emerging issues in Political Economy of International Communication through the lens of the debated ‘Global Power Shift’ from West to East. We will begin by critically assessing how the communications and... more
The digital Silk Road, which involves the internationalization of Chinese internet firms across countries that are party to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), has remained underexplored in the literature. This paper employs a... more
This paper will analyze the digital policies of China by focusing on the role of political values in liberal world order. China’s advanced technology based upon their unique digital values, which are absolutely different from the EU and... more
China’s Digital Silk Road is an ambitious and important vision to catalyze global digitalization. What will it mean for digital governance?
This chapter analyses various causal relations through which Ethiopian and Chinese actors interact in the context of the Digital Silk Road initiative. What is playing out in Africa is part of a larger contest between the West and China... more
Afghanistan was historically a major trade and transit hub of eastern and western civilizations, and it can be a hub for subsea and transcontinental telecommunication. Afghanistan holds the promise to be, in effect, a hub for Central... more
India, in an attempt to upgrade its technology, has in recent years bolstered its relationship with China, particularly in telecommunications and digital technology. Despite perceptions of rivalry, China-India synergy in digital... more
China’s ambitious Digital Silk Road (DSR) poses challenges that go far beyond technological competition. The DSR should serve as a wakeup call to the ‘digital emergency’ that India and the EU find themselves in. At stake for both actors... more
An important element of China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI), the Digital Silk Road (DSR) is a comprehensive response to the Third Offset Strategy of the US and aims to establish China as a global technological superpower. Although... more