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 (Yale University Press, 2020). A graduate of Brown University and Harvard's Kennedy School, Hillman has served as a researcher at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a Fulbright scholar. What follows is a lightly edited Q&A.
Jonathan Hillman. Illustration by Kate Copeland
Q: How did you come to work on the Digital Silk Road?
A: It’s really a natural extension of the work that I've been doing at CSIS for over five years tracking China's Belt and Road initi
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