Four years ago, Chinese President Xi Jinping told an elite audience at the World Economic Forum at Davos that “integration into the global economy is a historical trend,” asserting that “[a]ny attempt ...

Chinese smartphone brands have been major, even dominant, players in the global smartphone scene (with the notable exception of North America) for half a decade. But while anyone who remotely follows ...

Experts are warning that China’s recently launched Global Governance Initiative (GGI) represents a threat to developing nations by promoting authoritarianism through digital surveillance and ...

When I first embarked on the project to write about the encounters between Chinese digital capital and Nairobi’s booming innovation scene, I imagined myself rubbing shoulders with software developers, ...

In the perilous race between the United States and China for dominance of the global technological and security commons, the recent passage of the CHIPS and Science Act adds a powerful and much-needed ...

In the summer of 2023, the Cambodian government announced that construction on a 180-km canal, funded by the state-owned China Bridge and Road Corporation, would commence this year and be completed in ...