Virtual Event | Countering China’s Digital Silk Road

Join CNAS for a live, virtual event​ on Countering China's Digital Silk Road featuring former Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell on Wednesday, October 15, from 1:00 to 2:15 p.m. ET. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Digital Silk Road (DSR), China’s flagship initiative to strengthen its global ties and influence through technology. A decade after its launch, the DSR has become more vital to Beijing than ever as technology has moved to the center of its global ambitions. Since the DSR's inception, Beijing has signed bilateral technology agreements with over 80 countries, and Chinese tech exports have increased nearly 10-fold in the past three years alone.

This CNAS event will feature a fireside chat with former Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, followed by an expert panel to examine the DSR's evolution and effectiveness to date, U.S. and allied efforts to counter it, and key domains of U.S.-China tech competition in emerging markets.

The event will also mark the release of a major new CNAS report that will offer an in-depth examination of these questions and outline recommendations for more ambitious U.S. technology statecraft to counter China's Digital Silk Road.

Live viewers will have the opportunity to ask questions during the event.

Featuring:

Kurt Campbell
Former Deputy Secretary of State
Chairman and Co-Founder of the Asia Group

Ruth Berry
Senior Director and Head of Policy, NVIDIA
Former Director for Digital Technology Policy, White House National Security Council

Jonathan Hillman
Senior Fellow for Geoeconomics at the Council on Foreign Relations
Author of The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World

Vivek Chilukuri
Senior Fellow and Program Director, Technology and National Security Program
Center for a New American Security

Ruby Scanlon
Research Assistant, Technology and National Security Program
Center for a New American Security

Moderated by:

James Palmer
Deputy Editor, Foreign Policy
Author, Foreign Policy's China Brief newsletter

For registration questions, contact Jasmine Butler at [email protected]. For media inquiries, contact Charles Horn at [email protected].