Digital China

Research

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

China activates data in the national interest

Rebecca Arcesati

Comment

Jul 04, 2022

Smart Education: Between Hype and Reality (Institut Montaigne)

Rebecca Arcesati

External publication

Nov 30, 2021

China’s Evolving Role in Africa’s Digitalisation: From Building Infrastructure to Shaping Ecosystems (ISPI)

Rebecca Arcesati

External publication

Jun 29, 2021

Lofty principles, conflicting incentives: AI ethics and governance in China

Rebecca Arcesati

Report

Jun 24, 2021

China sets hopes on blockchain to close cyber security gaps

Kai von Carnap

Report

Mar 26, 2021

China’s Social Credit System in 2021: From fragmentation towards integration

Katja Drinhausen

Report

Mar 03, 2021

The digital Yuan will only lend a minor boost to internationalization of the currency

Maximilian Kärnfelt

Comment

Nov 16, 2020

China’s fintech giant Ant Financial reined in by politics

Comment

Nov 12, 2020

China’s Global Initiative on Data Security has a message for Europe

Comment

Sep 24, 2020

PBOC says world’s first state-back digital currency ready for launch

Comment

Sep 24, 2020

US campaign against Chinese vendors: The Global 5G Contest Escalates

John Lee

Comment

Aug 06, 2020

The Global War for 5G Heats up

John Lee

Aug 03, 2020

MERICS Web Seminar: China as an AI superpower? Quantifying China’s AI progress against the US and Europe

Video

Jul 01, 2020

A useful example, but no paradigm for Europe: China’s approaches to data-driven containment of Covid-19

New Report by MERICS

Press release

Jun 24, 2020

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

Video

Jun 04, 2020

China’s digital platform economy

Challenges and opportunities for German actors

Rebecca Arcesati

Anna Holzmann

Kai von Carnap

Claudia Wessling

Report

May 29, 2020

Perspectives of digital governance in China (Hanns Seidel Stiftung)

Katja Drinhausen

May 06, 2020

China’s good netizens

David Lenz

Comment

Apr 30, 2020

Will China reinvent the Internet? (The China Story)

John Lee

Apr 28, 2020

The Digital Silk Road is a development issue

Rebecca Arcesati

Comment

Apr 28, 2020

Beijing Authorities Push Rapid 5G Deployment Despite COVID-19 Headwinds (New America)

John Lee

Apr 21, 2020

Power to the People: Could EU bans on Huawei provoke a Chinese consumer backlash?

Linda Liang

Comment

Mar 27, 2020

What do young Chinese think about social credit? It's complicated

Marc Oliver Rieger

Mei Wang

Mareike Ohlberg

Report

Mar 26, 2020

China’s fight against COVID-19 - Clicking for a cure

Kai von Carnap

Comment

Mar 19, 2020

Open source of trouble: China’s efforts to decouple from foreign IT technologies

Caroline Meinhardt

Comment

Mar 18, 2020

5G and Huawei: Europe grapples with risk

John Lee

Comment

Feb 18, 2020

Europe's moment of truth with China

Noah Barkin

Comment

Jan 15, 2020

Size matters: Alibaba shapes China’s first “Court of the Internet”

Alice Mingay

Comment

Oct 17, 2019

Worried about Huawei? Then worry about Chinese blockchains, too

Kai von Carnap

Comment

Apr 26, 2019

China's Digital Rise

Challenges for Europe

Mareike Ohlberg

Report

Apr 08, 2019

Shanghai’s new tech board might perform better than previous attempts

Maximilian Kärnfelt

Comment

Mar 18, 2019

China’s blockchain conundrum

Kai von Carnap

Comment

Feb 06, 2019

A debate on ethics of new technologies is overdue in China

Comment

Dec 05, 2018

China's digital economy offers employment for disabled people

Karen Fisher

Haiqing Yu

Comment

Dec 03, 2018

Computers in Chinese schools cannot close the urban-rural divide

Barbara Schulte

Comment

Nov 27, 2018

Serve the people

Innovation and IT in China‘s social development agenda

Report

Oct 18, 2018

China’s march towards cyber hegemony

Hauke Gierow

Comment

Oct 08, 2018

Who’s really responsible for digital privacy in China?

Shazeda Ahmed

Bertram Lang

Comment

Jun 04, 2018

Germany's export industry in a US-China squeeze

Sebastian Heilmann

Guntram B. Wolff

Comment

Apr 30, 2018

China’s way to an innovation superpower

Sebastian Heilmann

Claudia Wessling

Jaqueline Ives

Comment

Mar 27, 2018

A clash of cyber civilizations

Geoffrey Hoffman

Comment

Feb 28, 2018

Central planning, local experiments

The complex implementation of China’s Social Credit System

Mareike Ohlberg

Shazeda Ahmed

Bertram Lang

Report

Dec 12, 2017

Programming China

The Communist Party’s autonomic approach to managing state security

Samantha Hoffman

Report

Dec 12, 2017

China's cyber regulations: a headache for foreign companies

Nabil Alsabah

Comment

Mar 22, 2017

Information control 2.0

The Cyberspace Administration of China tames the internet

Nabil Alsabah

Report

May 18, 2016

Governance through information control

China’s leadership struggles with credibility in social media

Hauke Gierow

Karsten Luc

Report

Jan 19, 2016

Cyber Security in China: Internet security, protectionism and competitiveness

New challenges to Western businesses

Hauke Gierow

Report

Feb 18, 2015

Cyber Security in China: New Political Leadership Focuses on Boosting National Security

Hauke Gierow

Report

Dec 09, 2014

Chinas Cyber Security (I)

Divergenzen hinsichtlich Informationskontrolle, Sicherheitsstandards und Industriepolitik als Herausforderungen für das deutsche China-Engagement

Hauke Gierow

Studie

Oct 14, 2014

Chinas Internetgiganten treiben ‚Mobile Commerce‘ an und drängen auf globale Märkte

Jost Wübbeke

Studie

Aug 25, 2014

Umkämpfte Großindustrie Online-Gaming

Kommerzielle Dynamik und Grenzen staatlicher Einflussnahme

Anja Goette

Studie

Jun 27, 2014

Insights

The Chinese way (World Energy)

Rebecca Arcesati

External publication

Nov 01, 2024

Experts on Digital China

JeroenGroenewegenLau

Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau

Head of Program

Antonia Hmaidi

Antonia Hmaidi

Senior Analyst

RebeccaArcesati

Rebecca Arcesati

Lead Analyst

KatjaDrinhausen

Katja Drinhausen

Head of Program

Wendy Chang

Wendy Chang

Analyst

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