POLICY COMPASS

China’s Wargames in the Indo-Pacific: Digital Silk Road and Hybrid Warfare

By Joshua Bowes

3 July 2024

In this paper we discuss:

  1. China's investment in the Digital Silk Roads (DSR) in the Indo-Pacific;
  2. The DSR as the tech arm of the BRI project;
  3. How the Maldives and the Solomon Islands have recently approached China;
  4. The US response to China's DSR, called US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), and its projects; and
  5. The hybrid warfare China conducts in the region, with both physical (navy) and cyber presence.

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