Digital economy a new impetus for Belt and Road construction
As more and more Belt and Road countries are laying importance on the construction of the digital Silk Road, the digital economy has already become a new impetus for the development of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). “Digital Silk Road” remained a buzz word at the first Belt and Road Forum for International […]
China’s smartest city to lead the nation on faster track of digital economy
“You don’t have to worry about getting abducted. If I were to make a move, if you lose contact with friends and family, the police will find me in no time.” Zhang Daqiang (pseudonym), a taxi driver from Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang province, joked to his passengers as his car sped along the elevated highways […]
Data, Rivalry and Government Power: Machine Learning Is Changing Everything
It wasn’t that long ago that the digital economy was thought to float on a plane above conventional geopolitics and economics. The global Internet, aspiring to be “free and open” and surprisingly close to that in reality, was a general-purpose technology as revolutionary as the internal combustion engine, telephony, electricity and industrial machines all wrapped […]