Digital Silk Road

China’s Logink platform as an economic weapon?

In 2007, China began implementing the strategy encapsulating the new world reality that “data is the new oil“. Through the…

6 months ago

China’s LOGINK digital platform: a weapon to bring about a new economic hegemon through data control, ownership, and manipulation?

Since the article published on this website in 2021, on China's drive towards creating a global smart supply chain integration…

2 years ago

Linked Out: understanding China’s digital divergence

Late last week, LinkedIn, a business-focused social media platform run by tech giant Microsoft, ceased its China service with dramatic…

3 years ago

China’s leadership at an inflection point: what does it mean for business?

With much of the world’s attention being focussed on the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, not…

3 years ago

Global smart supply chain integration: is a trap being laid with the Logink platform?

With the increasing development of smart supply chains and logistics and the desire to take these to a global standard,…

3 years ago

Plurilateralism & economic security: the future of the world economy

On August 10, 2021, the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) Graduate School's Security Governance and Diplomacy Cluster (SGDC) conducted…

3 years ago

Is military conflict over Taiwan inevitable or is China masking its true economic agenda?

With much focus on the developments in the increasingly strategic geo-political Indo-Pacific region, current analysis in the West has shifted…

3 years ago

Will future trade with China require digital integration with its Belt & Road Initiative?

With all the talk of supply chain dependency on China needing to “decouple” because of supply issues being exposed by…

3 years ago

What does digital integration mean for trade, logistics and supply chains with China?

This article is a summary of a chapter that this author contributed in the recently-published "The Digital Transformation of Logistics:…

4 years ago

Hegemonic transition. A secured world amid the vaccine revolution, digital transformation and economic competition.

On March 5, 2021, Asia Power Watch Founder & Editor Nicolas Michelon and Contributor Miljan Radunovic were invited by Dr…

4 years ago