Board #23 - The Digital Silk Road: China’s Ambition to Become a Great Power through International Technological Standardization

• In Event: 86-307 - Poster Session: Political Economy of Great Power Competition

Brief Overview

This paper argues that China’s Digital Silk Road will create network effects in standardization; Chinese standards, however, will not generate lock-in dynamics despite prevailing theories such as the California, Brussels, and Beijing Effects.

Author

• Zoë Frances Osborn, The University of Chicago