China's Role,Challenges,and Responses in Building the Digital Silk Road
Building the Digital Silk Road encompasses the triple meanings of realizing connectivity of digital infrastructures of countries along the Road,creating a new form of the digital economy driven by data elements,and forming digital governance rules with clear rights and responsibilities.In building the Digital Silk Road,China mainly assumes the roles of a provider of instrument,institution,and value.China is committed to narrowing the digital divide caused by the uneven development level of digital infrastructure along the Road,and leading the construction of a digital economy partnership network along the Road.Three types of subjects,including countries along the Road,China itself,and competing providers,will affect the actual effect of China's participation in building the Digital Silk Road.Nowadays,there is a big difference in the development levels of digital infrastructure among countries along the Road and these countries exhibit deficiencies in their digital infrastructure construction,which have also constrained the ability and willingness of certain digitally lagging countries to participate in the construction of the digital economy partnership network along the Road.Ideally,China should be able to provide public goods that meet the diverse consumption needs of countries along the Road;however,the institutional public goods provided by China to these countries are markedly homogenized.Moreover,developed digital economies,as competing providers,often collaborate with their extra-territorial allies to suppress and contain the digital economy partnership network along the Road led by China.In order to address the challenges posed by the three types of subjects,China will accurately align digital infrastructure development along the Road and coordinate its upgrades,revise its institutional supply strategy to provide more differentiated institutional public goods,and rationally assess the competing providers and their alliance system with the"Impossible Triangle."
the Digital Silk RoadDigital Economy Partnership NetworkDigital InfrastructureSupply CompetitionDigital Divide
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