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

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 artificial intelligence, digital governance, and global power dynamics. The rise of digital technology, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), has transformedsocieties and international politics. China has responded to the transformation andstrived 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 hasthe Chinese state worked with various stakeholders? To what extent has digital technologyinfluenced China’s authoritarian governance? How has Chinese society respondedto digital authoritarianism? Can China prevail in shaping global digital rulemaking? Thisedited 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 withvarious stakeholders, such as academic institutions, corporations, and local governments,in making digital technology policy. Part II analyses how the Chinese party-state used digitaltechnology to strengthen authoritarian governance and how society has respondedto digital authoritarianism. Part III explores China’s attempt to shape global digital rulemakingin competition with the US and other Western countries. This book is aimed at scholars, researchers, policymakers, and students with an interestin digital technology, international relations, Chinese politics, and authoritariangovernance. It will also appeal to those studying AI, digital governance, and global powerdynamics. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of ContemporaryChina and come with a new introduction.

Pages: 215, Edition: 1, Hardcover, Routledge