Digital China

Research

Digital China

Public private R&D + Digital talent + Advanced manufacturing

Alexander Brown, Rebecca Arcesati

MERICS Briefs

May 08, 2024

staff member of the East China Sea Comprehensive Agricultural Experiment Station of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences checks the growth of tissue culture seedlings in Lianyungang, East China's Jiangsu province, Feb 29, 2024.

The increasing challenge of obtaining information from Xi's China

Kai von Carnap

Report

Feb 15, 2024

Fragmenting cyberspace: The future of the internet in China

Kai von Carnap

Antonia Hmaidi

Rebecca Arcesati

Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau

Report

Nov 30, 2023

“Here to stay” – Chinese state-affiliated hacking for strategic goals

Antonia Hmaidi

Report

Nov 22, 2023

AI entanglements: Balancing risks and rewards of European-Chinese collaboration

Rebecca Arcesati

Wendy Chang

Antonia Hmaidi

Kai von Carnap

Report

Nov 16, 2023

China’s censors back down on generative AI

Rebecca Arcesati

Comment

Aug 09, 2023

The e-CNY will not help the yuan displace the dollar any time soon

François Chimits

Comment

May 05, 2023

The digital yuan struggles to find Chinese shoppers willing to spend it

Kai von Carnap

Comment

May 05, 2023

Fragmenting network protocols – China and the end of the web as we know it

Antonia Hmaidi

Kai von Carnap

Comment

Feb 24, 2023

Fragmenting data governance – Europe needs a strategy to live with China

Rebecca Arcesati

Comment

Feb 23, 2023

Fragmenting technology – 6G mobile could divide the world

Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau

Comment

Feb 22, 2023

Fragmenting the internet – beyond and within the Great Firewall

Kai von Carnap

Comment

Feb 21, 2023

Digitalisation for sustainable infrastructure: The road ahead

Rebecca Arcesati

External publication

Oct 17, 2022

Didi fine marks new phase in Beijing’s rectification of tech sector

Comment

Aug 09, 2022

Shanghai police-database breach exposes lax data protection

Rebecca Arcesati

Antonia Hmaidi

Comment

Jul 20, 2022

Beijing’s watchful eye on all data flowing in and out of China

Kai von Carnap

Comment

Jul 08, 2022

Oceans of data lift all boats: China’s data centers move west

Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau

Comment

Jul 06, 2022

Insights

Digital China

Data Marketplaces and Governance: Lessons from China (CIGI)

Rebecca Arcesati

External publication

Nov 12, 2024

How China plans to engineer its way out of technology ‘strangleholds’ (ASPI)

Michael Laha

External publication

Sep 26, 2022

Chinese public databases leaks reveal growing dissatisfaction with authorities

Antonia Hmaidi

Comment

Sep 19, 2022

The CCP’s vision for digital transformation, with Rebecca Arcesati

Podcast

May 06, 2022

Open-source data in China research, with Emile Dirks

Podcast

Apr 01, 2022

China’s social credit score – untangling myth from reality

Comment

Feb 11, 2022

China’s social credit system is actually quite boring

Comment

Sep 29, 2021

China’s digital paradox

Comment

Aug 13, 2021

China’s evolving data governance regime

Podcast

Jul 23, 2021

Events

Guangzhou subways use facial recognition

Digital China

China’s Social Credit System in 2021

Mar. 18, 2021

Digital China

Industrial Policy and Technology

MERICS Web Seminar: China’s digital platform economy: Challenges and opportunities for European actors

Jun. 03, 2020

Experts on Digital China

Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau

Head of Program

Antonia Hmaidi

Senior Analyst

Rebecca Arcesati

Lead Analyst (Brussels office)

Katja Drinhausen

Head of Program

Wendy Chang

Analyst

Digital China

Research

Public private R&D + Digital talent + Advanced manufacturing

The increasing challenge of obtaining information from Xi's China

Fragmenting cyberspace: The future of the internet in China

“Here to stay” – Chinese state-affiliated hacking for strategic goals

AI entanglements: Balancing risks and rewards of European-Chinese collaboration

China’s censors back down on generative AI

The e-CNY will not help the yuan displace the dollar any time soon

The digital yuan struggles to find Chinese shoppers willing to spend it

Fragmenting network protocols – China and the end of the web as we know it

Fragmenting data governance – Europe needs a strategy to live with China

Fragmenting technology – 6G mobile could divide the world

Fragmenting the internet – beyond and within the Great Firewall

Digitalisation for sustainable infrastructure: The road ahead

Didi fine marks new phase in Beijing’s rectification of tech sector

Shanghai police-database breach exposes lax data protection

Beijing’s watchful eye on all data flowing in and out of China

Oceans of data lift all boats: China’s data centers move west

Insights

Data Marketplaces and Governance: Lessons from China (CIGI)

How China plans to engineer its way out of technology ‘strangleholds’ (ASPI)

Chinese public databases leaks reveal growing dissatisfaction with authorities

The CCP’s vision for digital transformation, with Rebecca Arcesati

Open-source data in China research, with Emile Dirks

China’s social credit score – untangling myth from reality

China’s social credit system is actually quite boring

China’s digital paradox

China’s evolving data governance regime

Events

China’s Social Credit System in 2021

MERICS Web Seminar: China’s digital platform economy: Challenges and opportunities for European actors

Experts on Digital China

Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau

Antonia Hmaidi

Rebecca Arcesati

Katja Drinhausen

Wendy Chang

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