By Mehmet Enes Beşer With a vision to be among the highest priorities of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China’s Digital Silk Road (DSR) has been slowly piercing Southeast Asia. From the underwater mosaic of cables and cloud hubs to e-commerce platforms and smart city technology, the DSR has been Beijing’s master plan for digital interconnectivity, standards, and influence ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer The Digital Silk Road (DSR), one of the pillars that China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) stands upon, has traditionally been perceived through the lens of geopolitical rivalry, surveillance concerns, and technological superiority. Western policymakers tend to present it as a carrier of digital autocracy or a tool of influence projection. But such assessments, however accurate, ...