Digital Silk Road (eBook)

An urgent, engaging look at China's push to build digital influence and leverage, project by project, as it makes a play for global dominance

A first-rate blend of analysis and journalistic reporting from the front lines of economic statecraft

Xi's path to absolute power ... has created a personality cult that demands even more repression and controls than George Orwell could have imagined ... The challenge to open societies is real, if daunting, and this book offers a deep analysis of that threat and some possibilities of how it can be tackled

A timely and fascinating account of how China is shaping the digital universe, redrawing the connections that carry data from ocean floor to outer space, and harnessing the means by which both commerce and warfare will increasingly be conducted, framed in a century-defining contest for control

A probing look at China's quest to dominate the technosphere [and] a cogent warning that the West has much work to do if it is to contain Chinese expansion into cyberspace

For all the hype and hand-wringing over how the [Belt and Road] could usher in the Chinese century, Hillman's engaging mix of high-level analysis and fieldwork in more than a dozen countries paints a much more nuanced picture

Essential reading for understanding one of the greatest geostrategic challenges of our age: China's technological rise and global push to dominate the vital systems upon which militaries, markets, and modern societies depend

Assiduously researched and compellingly written ... Behind the Great Firewall, Hillman provides a thorough account of an increasingly controlled internet

Engrossing ... Hillman weaves together academic research with on-the-ground journalism to paint a vivid picture of China's Digital Silk Road efforts

Hillman is surely right that Chinese tech makes the world a more dangerous place than we once hoped ... The prospect that [he] sets up is terrifying