1st Edition
The Digital Silk Road China’s Technological Rise and the Geopolitics of Cyberspace
Introduction
David Gordon and Meia Nouwens
Chapter One - China’s investment in digital technologies and the Digital Great Game
Marcus Willett
Chapter Two - Locating the Digital Silk Road in the Belt and Road Initiative
Robert Koepp
Chapter Three - Identifying the Digital Silk Road
Meia Nouwens
Chapter Four - The Digital Silk Road and the evolving role of Chinese technology companies
Paul Triolo
Chapter Five - The Digital Silk Road and China’s grand strategic ambition
Damien Ma
Chapter Six - The Digital Silk Road and normative values
Adrian Shahbaz
Chapter Seven - Balancing prosperity and security along the Digital Silk Road
Scott Malcomson
Conclusion
David Gordon and Meia Nouwens
Appendix
Notes
Index
Biography
Dr David Gordon is Senior Adviser for Geo-economics and Strategy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is a former US diplomat and intelligence official, and served as director of policy planning at the US State Department under then-secretary of state Condoleezza Rice. His work focuses on the intersection of security, economics and strategy.
Meia Nouwens is Senior Fellow for Chinese Defence Policy and Military Modernisation at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). Her expertise lies in Chinese cross-service defence analysis, China’s defence industry and innovation, as well as China’s regional strategic affairs and international relations. She leads IISS research on China’s Digital Silk Road and the institute’s wider China portfolio.
‘This groundbreaking work combines the best available expertise with detailed datasets to illuminate the complex phenomenon that is China’s Digital Silk Road. The understanding it offers is critically important at a time of growing East–West geopolitical and technological competition.’
Nigel Inkster, IISS Senior Adviser for Cyber Security and China; former Assistant Chief, Secret Intelligence Service (UK)
