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Strategic Foundations
This section frames China’s coordinated use of AI, large language models, and digital human systems as a state-directed infrastructure for technological sovereignty, ideological projection, and global soft-power expansion through culture, governance, and the Belt and Road.
China’s Artificial Intelligence Strategy: Implications for Global Leadership in the 21st Century
Examines China’s overarching AI vision and its implications for technological sovereignty and global influence.
The Chinese Communist Party’s Engagement with Digital Human Technology
Analyzes how digital human systems are embedded in governance, propaganda, and state ideology.
Animating the Belt and Road Through Digital Humans for Global Influence
Investigates how virtual avatars are deployed in the Belt and Road Initiative to extend China’s cultural and political soft power.
Decoding the “Hundred Model War”: China’s Quest for Language AI Supremacy
Explores the LLM arms race in China and the implications for national and global NLP dominance.
The “Nvwa Plan”: Digitizing Chinese Culture for Global Reach
Describes a strategic initiative to export Chinese identity through digital human IPs and cultural avatars.