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100			_aCHENG Jing _eauthor
245			_a“Digital Silk Road” as a slogan instead of a grand strategy / _cJing Cheng and Jinghan Zeng
260			_c2024
520			_aThe rise of the Digital Silk Road has significantly shifted the focus of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. This change in emphasis has produced sizeable political and academic analyses, considering that the Digital Silk Road is Beijing’s coherent top-down geopolitical—if not grand—strategy. This article challenges this view. By adopting a slogan politics approach, this article argues that the Digital Silk Road can be better understood as a vague political slogan. Far from a sophisticated top-level design, the rise of the Digital Silk Road was a result of economic and political struggles among domestic actors and the shifting socio-political landscape. This article also shows that Chinese domestic actors have (un)consciously interpreted the slogan of the Digital Silk Road in their preferred ways to advance their own agenda. Beyond nationwide support to echo the slogan, there is neither a coherent understanding nor a nationally concerted effort to advance a singular geopolitical objective, if there is any. Consequently, company-level interests and agendas, rather than a top-down geopolitical masterplan, have dominated the development of the Digital Silk Road.
650			_aDIGITAL SILK ROAD _zCHINA
700			_aZENG Jinghan _eauthor
773			_gJournal of Contemporary China: Volume 33, Number 149, September 2024, 823-838
856			_uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10670564.2023.2222269 _zClick here for full text
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