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100			_aMehta, Raj Shekhar _948328
245			_aChina’s techno-politics: The impact on belt and road partners
260			_aIndia Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs
300			_a79(3), Sep, 2023: p.336-355
520			_aThe impact of China’s Digital Silk Road (DSR) on countries signing the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a less explored area. This article argues that the repercussions of unregulated propagation of DSR on BRI countries are likely to go beyond economy and commerce because of the vastly different approach of China’s use of technology in its own governance. Since this aspect is inadequately covered in existing literature, an attempt is made to fill the gap. When external entities are allowed to setup large-scale digital networks, e-governance and e-commerce in technologically deficient countries of the Global South, the host country loses control over its digital data that such networks generate. Overdependence on technology of one nation can lead to a data monopoly with a potential impact on the entire polity. To what extent this hypothesis holds substance is the issue deliberated on in this article using inductive reasoning and qualitative methods. – Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09749284231183321
773			_aIndia Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs
906			_aINTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
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