Strategic Drivers - Digital China Wins the Future

Category: Strategic Drivers

8 Posts

Cover of Social Sciences in China magazine

Analysis, Strategic Drivers

Digital China Reflects Digital Socialism in Practice

Digital China Just Reframed Great Power Competition. We Missed It.

Analysis, Domestic & International Design, Strategic Drivers

Digital China Just Reframed Great Power Competition. We Missed It.

Digital China and Chinese Style Modernization: Zhuang Rongwen Signals the Party’s Path Forward

Analysis, Domestic & International Design, Strategic Drivers

Digital China and Chinese Style Modernization: Zhuang Rongwen Signals the Party’s Path Forward

At the inaugural Digital China Summit in April 2018, Xi Jinping’s no-nonsense directive blazed across the main display board: “No waiting, no watching, no slacking”

Analysis, Strategic Drivers

No Waiting, No Watching, No Slacking: Xi’s Digital Push for China’s Socialist Future

February 24, 2023

David Dorman and John Hemmings, “Digital China: The Strategy and Its Geopolitical Implications,” Issues and Insights, February 20, 2023

Explainer, Stack Innovation Layer, Strategic Drivers

Digital China: The Strategy and Its Geopolitical Implications

February 20, 2023

Analysis, Strategic Drivers

Informatization and Digitalization Are Two Different Things

February 2, 2023

Conceptual Design, Strategic Drivers, Translation

Outlook Weekly | Digital China Wins the Future

February 19, 2022

Xi Jinping Leverages COVID-19 "War Without Smoke" to Spur Digital Transformation

Military-Civil Fusion, Strategic Drivers, Update

Security Nexus | Xi Jinping Leverages COVID-19 “War Without Smoke” to Spur Digital Transformation

Key One: China has an elite digital triad of national strategies: Cyber Great Power, Digital China, and Smart Society. Together, they drive the country's digital-intelligent transformation into a Modernized Socialist Great Power. Although this website focuses on Digital China, understanding its full scope requires knowing all three.

Key Two: Digital China is both a strategy and a stack. The strategy—an ends, ways, and means framework—explains how the Party generates and employs digital power. The stack—a layered system architecture—shows how that power is built. Together, they provide an integrated model for understanding China’s national digital strategy.

“The struggle between China and the United States in cyberspace is intensifying. The U.S. policy of containment against China has expanded from physical space to cyberspace, aiming to place China in a passive position. Cyber warfare is no longer a matter of whether we want to fight it or not; it has reached a point where we have no choice but to respond."
Zheng Bijian, Face the Challenge with Comprehensive Planning; Strive to Build a World Class Cyber Great Power in Ten Years, State Council Secretariat Second Bureau, April 3, 2013