The Digital Silk Road

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<P>Concerns about China¿s ambitions to return to global centre stage as a great power have recently begun to focus on the Digital Silk Road (DSR), an umbrella term for various activities ¿ commercial and diplomatic ¿ of interest to the Chinese government in the cyber realm. Part of (or a spin-off from) the 2013 Belt and Road Initiative, by 2020 the DSR had become a focal point of China¿s foreign policy. But the DSR remains ill-defined and poorly understood. </P><P></P><P>At the heart of such concerns is not that Chinese technology companies are becoming globally competitive, but rather that Beijing could use them to ¿rewire¿ the global digital architecture, from physical cables to code. Dominance by Chinese technology could shift global norms from a free cyber commons to competing systems of cyber sovereignty or cyber freedom. This <I>Adelphi</I> book brings together eight experts to examine the development of the DSR, explore its impact on economics, security and governance in recipie