The Digital Silk Road: Towards a China-Centred Eurasian Tech Ecosystem?
Date of Publication
2020 12:00 AM
Security Theme
Cybersecurity
Keywords
Cybersecurity, China, Cybersecurity, business, cybersecurity standards, critical infrastructure, communications sector, cybertechnology, China, the people's republic of China, PRC, the Digital Silk Road, DSR, Belt and Road Initiative, BRI, digital infrastructure
Description
In 2015, the Chinese government officially announced in a governmental white paper the creation of the Digital Silk Road (DSR), also known as Information Silk Road, as a subset of the Belt Road Initiative (BRI) (NDRC 2015). According to Beijing’s officials, the DSR’s objective would be to create a China-centric digital infrastructure. This would serve both domestically and internationally to outsource industrial overcapacity, “facilitate the expansion of Chinese technology corporations, access large pools of data, and project Beijing sharp power.
The Digital Silk Road: Towards a China-Centred Eurasian Tech Ecosystem?
In 2015, the Chinese government officially announced in a governmental white paper the creation of the Digital Silk Road (DSR), also known as Information Silk Road, as a subset of the Belt Road Initiative (BRI) (NDRC 2015). According to Beijing’s officials, the DSR’s objective would be to create a China-centric digital infrastructure. This would serve both domestically and internationally to outsource industrial overcapacity, “facilitate the expansion of Chinese technology corporations, access large pools of data, and project Beijing sharp power.
Comments
The Digital Silk Road is a subset of the Belt and Road Initiative, but strictly focused on digital infrastructure.