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Commentary: Western China as Computer Server for the Digital Silk Road

April 12, 2022 — 0 Comments

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"Digital China is, in fact, about winning. Winning the digital age. We need to better understand the Digital China strategy, its goals, its successes and challenges, and the theory and narratives driving it. A better informed understanding will save us time and dispel misunderstanding across and within borders. Most important, it will also move us closer to a focused, unified, and one hopes, effective response to the real challenges we face.

David Dorman, "Digital China is, in fact, about winning," Digital China Wins the Future, January 30, 2023

"Over the past two decades, General Secretary Xi Jinping has been at the center of party efforts to create a comprehensive digital strategy of immense proportions, Digital China. Although mostly unknown in the West, Digital China has enormous implications for China’s developmental path, great-power competition, and the norms that will undergird the international system for decades to come."

David Dorman, "China's Plan for Digital Dominance," War on the Rocks," March 28, 2022

"I don't hear Western businesses saying that they want to help China become a "Cyber Great Power" or a "Maritime Great Power." "Digital China" falls into the same general class of Communist Party initiatives and national-level strategies, but almost no one knows it. It sounds more like a meme of some kind - digital China with a small "d". Pretty useful for Beijing as it turns out. Western businesses offer help, without understanding the connotation."

David Dorman, "Get the Word Out on Digital China," Digital China Wins The Future, April 21, 2022

"Technology is the key, and information is the soul. Not paying attention to informatization work is like a blind man riding a blind horse into a deep pool in the middle of the night..."

Xi Jinping, Party Secretary, Zhengding County, Hebei Province, Circa March 1982. "General Secretary Xi Jinping Guides the Development of Our Country's Informatization," China Cyberspace, June 8, 2022.

“From Digital Fujian to Digital China, General Secretary Xi Jinping's strategic thinking on building an informatized China has been consistent, in one continuous line, and highly connected to thought and theory.”

“Digital Fujian is the Ideological Source of Digital China,” Guangming Daily, April 23, 2018, Page 1

"Since the 18th Party Congress, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has taken a long-term view, seized the major historical opportunity of global digitalized development and digitalized transformation, and systematically planned and coordinated to advance the construction of Digital China."

Opening Summary, 2021 Digital China Development Report, Cyberspace Administration of China, July 23, 2022

"Whoever can better recognize and seize the general trend of digitalization, and better adapt to and lead the developmental direction of new forces of production, will be able to win the new omnidirectional competition for comprehensive national power."

"Digital China Wins the Future," Outlook Weekly Magazine, "Authoritative" Governance Events Column, February 21, 2022

"There are multiple drivers behind China’s digital strategy, but one of them is competition, and in particular, technology competition with the United States. It is always useful when you are competing to know that the race has started. This race started more than 20 years ago, and according to Chinese Communist Party history, Xi Jinping was the one who started it. The contest is personal, and Xi just moved another piece on the board."

David Dorman and John Hemmings, "China's Digital Challenge: Hidden in Plain Sight, Bigger Than You Thought, and Much Harder to Solve," May 11, 2022

"While the technical missions of Digital China are grand, the socioeconomic and geopolitical scope of Digital China is breathtaking. Marxist theorists routinely characterize the developmental components of Digital China as nothing less than the digital transformation of China’s path to national rejuvenation."

David Dorman, "China's Plan for Digital Dominance," War on the Rocks, March 28, 2022

"New Type Infrastructure is a critical feature of China’s comprehensive digital strategy, Digital China, and has been for years. Outside China, one is hard pressed to find a single mention of the term. I have no real explanation for this."

David Dorman, "Most Americans Have Never Heard of New Type Infrastructure. Even Xi Jinping would find that Odd," Digital China Wins the Future, May 13, 2022

"Beijing launched its field of dreams for data, New Type Infrastructure's Eastern Data Western Computing project, on February 17. It is still in the headlines in China, but it hardly made the news here. It just does not sound that important. It is."

David Dorman, "How China Will Dominate the Global Competition Over Data," The National Interest, April 28, 2022

"…the military-civil fusion component of Digital China was highlighted in state-run media and official documents up to 2016, since that time the discussion has all but vanished."

David Dorman, "China’s Industrial Internet Work Plan for 2022; Military-Civil Fusion Highlighted," Digital China Wins the Future, April 13, 2022

"Smart ecosystems are what Digital China is all about. That means lots of bundled technologies, inside and outside China. If Beijing is successful in Building Digital China (and that’s a maybe I know, but still enough to make me pause), we will face something much more substantial than we saw with simply Huawei 5G."

David Dorman, "Here’s a Question: Just How Integrated is China’s Digital Ecosystem? Take Huawei for example," Digital China Wins the Future, April 20, 2022

"The Communist Party’s approach to technology has been framed by Marxist thought — not incidentally, but deliberately. The governance and control of data within an informatized system is a key focal point of Digital China. But this new approach to data also required using historical materialism to justify an ostensibly Marxist economic system that had elevated data, not labor, as the key factor of production."

David Dorman, "China's Plan for Digital Dominance," War on the Rocks, March 28, 2022

"In 2016, the Communist Party was already moving to revise Marx’s Labor Theory of Value to designate “data” as the newest and most valuable “factor of production” in China’s developing digital economy. But to be successful, data would require a digital infrastructure program of massive proportions to carry it. New Type Infrastructure would become the “information aorta” for China’s economic and social development in the digital era."

David Dorman, "Talk Story: Everything You Need to Know about Xi Jinping and his Information Aorta," Digital China Wins the Future, April 19, 2022

“The construction of Digital China is a huge project that is complex, global, and systemic, and requires adherence to the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee…"

Tang Zhiwei, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China,“Create a New Landscape for the Construction of Digital China with Chinese-style Modernization," Guangming Online, December 7, 2022

"The digital economy, digital society, and digital government are organic components of Digital China. It is necessary to promote the construction of Digital China with systems thinking, and to promote the digital transformation of the economy, society and government. At the heart of a systems thinking approach to a national digital strategy is the integration of institutions, organizations, people, technology, data, and resources to support the much-needed transformation inside and outside the public sector to generate public value."

Liu Mixia, Associate Professor, Central Party School, "The Construction of Digital China Requires Systems Thinking," Study Times, June 4, 2021

"Our country…has firmly grasped the historical opportunity of the information revolution and made Building Digital China the overall strategy for national informatized development in the new era…providing a powerful digital impetus in the march to the Second Centenary Goal.”

“Cyberspace Administration of China Publishes 2020 Digital China Development Report,” Cyberspace Administration of China, July 02, 2021

"In 2021, a number of major strategic plans were successively introduced including the "14th Five-Year Plan…" with a special section titled "Accelerate Digitalized Development and Build Digital China,” the "14th Five-Year Plan for National Informatization,” and the "14th Five-Year Plan for Digital Economy Development," drawing a beautiful blueprint for the construction of Digital China during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period."

"Opening Summary," 2021 Digital China Development Report, Cyberspace Administration of China, July 23, 2022

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