Jonathan Hillman on the Digital Silk Road's Increasing Importance

Jonathan E. Hillman is a senior fellow with the economics program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and director of the Reconnecting Asia Project, one of the most extensive open-source databases tracking China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Hillman is also the author, most recently, of The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future (Harper Collins 2021), due out this month, and The Emperor’s New Road: China and the Project of the Century (Yal

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Jonathan Hillman on the Digital Silk Road’s Increasing Importance

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