1st Edition

Techno-Geopolitics US-China Tech War and the Practice of Digital Statecraft

By Pak Nung Wong Copyright 2022
134 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

134 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

134 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

Techno-Geopolitics explores contemporary U.S.–China relations and the future of global cyber-security through the prisms of geopolitics and financial-technological competition. It puts forward a new conceptual framework for an emerging field of digital statecraft and discusses a range of key issues including the controversies around 5G technology, policy regulations over TikTok and WeChat, the... Read more

1. Introduction: Beneath the U.S.-China Trade War 2. Techno-Geopolitics: Toward Novel Theoretical Framework Transcending the ‘Techno-Nationalism Vs. Techno-Globalism’ Dualism 3. Re-charting the Rimland: U.S.-China 5G Techno-Geopolitical Containment and Counter-containment in Asia and Europe 4. Rise of China’s Intelligence Capability: Intelligence Culture, Panoptic State-Building and Tradecraft Techniques 5. Conclusion: Outline of the Practice of Digital Statecraft

Biography

Pak Nung Wong teaches politics and international relations at the University of Bath, U.K. His recent publications include Destined Statecraft: Eurasian Small Power Politics and Strategic Cultures in Geopolitical Shifts (2018), Discerning the Powers in Post-Colonial Africa and Asia: A Treatise of Christian Statecraft (2016), Post-Colonial Statecraft in South East Asia: Sovereignty, State-Building and the Chinese in the Philippines (2013). He is Editor-in-Chief of Bandung: Journal of the Global South, which he founded with an international network of scholars, practitioners and policymakers in 2013. Apart from publishing in the English language, Dr Wong’s Chinese-language columns in Hong Kong-based media have been followed, translated and used by governmental ministries in foreign affairs, defence, security and intelligence services, culture and religion, technology and higher education across the world.