Digital Silk Road; Is it an Anti-Globalization Backlash? Is it Chinese-Style Globalization?

Authors : Necmettin MUTLU

Pages : 34-60

Doi:10.53451/ijps.1225710

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Publication Date : 2023-10-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Digital activities of the Belt and Road initiative called the \`digital Silk Road\` in the post-COVID-19 outbreak era and initially introduced in 2015 as the \`information Silk Road,\` have come under fire. Finding out whether China\`s technical improvement, which has become evident in many areas thanks to the Digital Belt and Road initiative project, is a backlash against globalization or a new wave of it done in a Chinese form is the main challenge of this study. Data centers—the backbone of the Belt and Road Initiative—undersea fiber optic cables, 5-G cellular data networks, and Turkish investments in these sectors have all been essential in this regard. This method explores China\`s technological development from the four modernization periods to the present through a chronological descriptive description. This study should be viewed as significantly contributing to the literature because it provides a system-level examination of the digital Belt and Road endeavor.
Keywords : Anti globalization, Belt and Road, China, Digital Silk Road, Globalisation