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The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future
Jonathan E. Hillman
China, Information technology industries
An expert on China's growing digital empire provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow's networks
Its vast infrastructure projects now extend from the ocean floor to outer space, and from Africa's megacities into rural America. China is wiring the world, and, in doing so, rewriting the global order.
As things stand, the rest of the world still has a choice. But the battle for tomorrow will require America and its allies to take daring risks in uncertain political terrain. Unchecked, China will reshape global flows of data to reflect its interests. It will
develop an unrivalled understanding of market movements, the deliberations of foreign competitors, and the lives of countless individuals enmeshed in its systems. Networks create large winners, and this is one contest that democracies can't afford to lose.
Taking readers on a global tour of these emerging battlefields, Jonathan Hillman reveals what China's digital footprint looks like on the ground, and explores the dangers of a world in which all routers lead to Beijing.
Praise for The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future
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'Praise for - The Emperor's New Silk Road:
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An outstanding book by one of the most interesting and original thinkers about the rise of China, the Belt and Road
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Initiative and what both mean for the rest of the world. Filled with insights into the changing world of the 21st century -
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essential reading' - The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
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'For all the hype and hand-wringing over how the [Belt and Road] could usher in the Chinese century, Hillman's engaging
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mix of high-level analysis and fieldwork in more than a dozen countries paints a much more nuanced picture' - Foreign Policy
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'A first-rate blend of analysis and journalistic reporting from the front lines of economic statecraft' - War on the Rocks
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