The Cyber Silk Road

The Cyber Silk Road

The One Belt One Road Initiative (a.k.a.the Silk Road Project) has created a whirl of activity along the land and maritime routes that are combining under Chinese leadership to create an international marketplace. Yet moving ahead of these massive infrastructure projects is another piece of the project, the Cyber Silk Road. This aspect of the larger initiative seeks to expand communications and networking across the Eurasian and African continents, all pointing toward one large, global online marketplace. E-commerce drives the digital infrastructure buildout, which can move ahead via Skip-a-Step technologies much faster than other Silk Road projects that involve massive physical buildouts. The Cyber Silk Road has generated business and deal-making along three lines: Systems and Networks, E-commerce, and Payments. Is the Pax Americana of the past century being replaced by a Seres Foro(i.e., Chinese market), a Chinese-led globalized e-commerce market?

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