Over two decades, Xi Jinping engineered the world’s first digital grand strategy: Digital China. It’s time we understood it.
Website Mission
After retiring from government, I was struck that China’s three elite digital strategies (Digital China, Cyber Great Power, and Smart Society) are largely absent from Western discourse, despite their central place in Chinese Communist Party strategic planning.
This website is my small effort to shine a light on these strategies and the unmatched strategic insights they offer: 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 is simple: to help inform the public about these strategies; to ensure that our policymakers understand the seriousness, scope, and speed of their implementation; to assess the risks this may carry; and to facilitate dialogue with our allies and partners on an informed and constructive response.
Website Management
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.
Website Nomenclature
The title of this website, Digital China Wins The Future, is drawn from the opening section of the Cyberspace Administration of China’s 2017 Digital China Development Report, a theme that has repeated itself in state-run media. For example, “Digital China Wins the Future” served as the cover story for Xinhua’s Outlook Weekly magazine on February 21, 2022, a story that is highlighted on this website.
Your questions, comments, additions, or corrections are always welcome! Please contact me at digitalchinawinsthefuture@gmail.com