The Making of China's Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security Policy

Players, Governance, and Global Ambition
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-04279-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

The rise of digital technology, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), has transformed
societies and international politics. China has responded to the transformation and
strived to become one of the global leaders. What is China’s approach toward the objective?
Who are the major players and stakeholders in the making of digital policy? How has
the Chinese state worked with various stakeholders? To what extent has digital technology
influenced China’s authoritarian governance? How has Chinese society responded
to digital authoritarianism? Can China prevail in shaping global digital rulemaking? This
edited volume seeks answers to these important questions. Divided into three parts,
Part I examines how the central state has become a leading player and coordinated with
various stakeholders, such as academic institutions, corporations, and local governments,
in making digital technology policy. Part II analyses how the Chinese party-state used digital
technology to strengthen authoritarian governance and how society has responded
to digital authoritarianism. Part III explores China’s attempt to shape global digital rulemaking
in competition with the US and other Western countries.

This book is aimed at scholars, researchers, policymakers, and students with an interest
in digital technology, international relations, Chinese politics, and authoritarian
governance. It will also appeal to those studying AI, digital governance, and global power
dynamics.

The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of Contemporary
China and come with a new introduction.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zhao, Suisheng

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: A State-Led Approach toward China’s Digital Policy. Part I: The Decision-Makers and Stakeholders. 1. Centralized Regime Gaining Information Capacity: Can China Approach Innovation Frontiers? 2. China’s Artificial Intelligence Ethics: Policy Development in an Emergent Community of Practice. Part II: Digital Authoritarianism. 3. The Chinese Conception of Cybersecurity: A Conceptual, Institutional and Regulatory Genealogy. 4. Modernization Planner, Authoritarian Paternalist, and Rising Power: Evolving Government Positions in China’s Internet Securitization. 5. Urban Management in Authoritarian China: How the Smart City Is Used to Enhance Comprehensive Law Enforcement. 6. Digital Governance in China: Dispute Settlement and Stability Maintenance in the Digital Age. 7. 'Hold on to the Green Horse’: Popular Imaginations of the Health Code and the Cultivation of Algocratic Attunement in China in the COVID Era. Part III: Shaping Global Digital Governance. 8. Chinese Influence through Technical Standardization Power. 9. Chinese Data Governance and Trade Policy: From Cyber Sovereignty to the Quest for Digital Hegemony? 10. China’s Digital Yuan: Motivations of the Chinese Government and Potential Global Effects. 11. Shaping AI’s Future? China in Global AI Governance.

Über Autor(innen)

Suisheng Zhao is Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at Josef
Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, USA. He is the founder
and editor of the Journal of Contemporary China and the author and editor of over two
dozen books and hundreds of academic articles.