Whether the parallels to the Cold War are appropriate or not, the US and China are increasingly acting as per Cold War frameworks. The Chinese have kept US companies out of China for long, and recently, the US has put in place strict measures to keep the Chinese out of the US. As a result, the tech cold war is being played out in the ‘new digital battlegrounds’ or the ‘digital swing states’.
As per a methodology designed by NewAmerica.org, the top digital swing states are Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, India and Singapore. A region-wise analysis would suggest that the new digital battlegrounds are Africa, South East Asia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. As Tim Maurer and Robert Morgus point out, focusing on swing states such as Brazil, India, Indonesia and Turkey could pay off massively for the US and China. The choices these countries make on emerging technological frameworks could decisively influence the direction of the tech-shaped world order.
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Digital swing state: Is India today the China of the 1970s?
Of the digital swing states, India stands out as an extremely interesting, and relevant, case study. In some ways, the US is looking at India as the game-changing swing state, as it likely saw China in the 1970s.
The US–India strategic partnership seems to have many parallels with the US–China alliance struck by Nixon and Kissinger in the 1970s. In the 1970s, China was a state...
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