<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:creator>Kaufmann, Lena</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2021</dc:date>
  <dc:description xmlns:ns0="xml" ns0:lang="en">Through the lens of "politics of sight", this chapter provides on-the-ground perspectives on a crucial yet commonly overlooked aspect of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): the Digital Silk Road (DSR). Drawing on ethnographic and archival research focused on digital infrastructures, specifically fiber-optic networks, I trace China's DSR to Europe through the example of Switzerland. To comprehend the effects of digitalization in Switzerland and globally requires considering Chinese involvements in digital infrastructures. I argue that although discursive references linking Switzerland to the DSR are recent and Western observers are only now beginning to "see" Chinese fiber-optic networks, what is currently framed as part of the DSR began long before the announcement of the BRI. Moreover, the Chinese-Swiss entanglements in digital infrastructures are not as unidirectional as is often assumed. Overall, the DSR is better characterized as a series of multinational investments rather than as a cohesive, top-down geopolitical strategy.</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>https://sonar.ch/global/documents/334077</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>https://sonar.ch/documents/334077/files/kaufmann_2021_prefiguringchinasdigitalsilkroadtoeurope.pdf</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
  <dc:relation>info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.5167/uzh-257849</dc:relation>
  <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights>
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  <dc:source>Transformations: Downstream Effects of the BRI blog, Belt and Road in Global Perspective at the Munk School of Global Affairs &amp; Public Policy. - University of Toronto. - 2021</dc:source>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns1="xml" ns1:lang="en">China in Europe</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns2="xml" ns2:lang="en">Chinese–Swiss entanglements</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns3="xml" ns3:lang="en">Digital Silk Road</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns4="xml" ns4:lang="en">Belt and Road Initiative</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns5="xml" ns5:lang="en">Politics of sight</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns6="xml" ns6:lang="en">Digital infrastructures</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns7="xml" ns7:lang="en">Fiber-optic networks</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns8="xml" ns8:lang="en">Internet cables</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns9="xml" ns9:lang="en">Information and Communications Technologies (ICT)</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns10="xml" ns10:lang="en">Telecommunication companies</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>info:eu-repo/classification/udc/root_3</dc:subject>
  <dc:title xmlns:ns11="xml" ns11:lang="en">Prefiguring China’s Digital Silk Road to Europe: Connecting Switzerland</dc:title>
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