The Problem: China’s national digital strategy remains a critical U.S. blind spot.
June 2021: I rebuilt this website to warn that China’s three elite digital strategies — Digital China, Cyber Great Power, and Smart Society — were largely absent from Western discourse, despite their central place in Chinese Communist Party strategic planning.
July 2026: Five years later, the strategic blind spot remains. The Digital Triad still has not entered the U.S. strategic conversation. Worse, this analytical gap has widened, clouding U.S. understanding of critical adjacent strategies such as Military-Civil Fusion.
What we miss: In an era of intensifying geostrategic competition, these formally named, publicly available strategies offer unmatched strategic insight: Beijing’s authoritative vision for the digital age (highly ideological), the digital ambitions that drive it (highly competitive), and the timeline that shapes it (highly constrained).
My goal: This website exists to inform the public about these strategies; to ensure our policymakers understand the seriousness, scope, and speed of their implementation; to assess the risks they may carry; and to support informed dialogue with our allies and partners on a constructive response.
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This is an independent educational website managed by David Dorman. I maintain this website without funding or fees from any source. It offers analysis on China’s three elite digital strategies (Digital China, Cyber Great Power, and Smart Society) purely for teaching, research, and scholarship. I am solely responsible for all website content. This content does not necessarily reflect the views of my past or future employers, and their endorsement is not implied and may not be inferred.