Research perspectives, conceptual notes and questions from the field.
What, in reality, is the Digital Silk Road? What are its boundaries? Which projects and countries are part of it, which are not? In this article, we reconstruct the history of the Digital Silk Road initiative and position it within internal Chinese politics and the BRI.
Read highlightsChina’s 14th Five-Year Plan offers a lens through which to examine how digital development reshapes the relationship between national strategy and global connectivity. By tracing policy ambitions alongside industrial and infrastructure developments, this article explores China’s efforts to reconfigure the cybersphere amid geopolitical tensions, supply-chain dependencies and competing visions of social development.
Read highlightsDocking is coordination without consolidation. It allows contradictory technical systems to coexist without formal convergence and without explicit geopolitical alignment. The spatial outcome is what we name atomised territory.
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