China is rapidly displacing the West as a global data gatekeeper

Evidence

There seems to be, however, an imminent shift in the struggle for global dominance at a time of accelerating ambitions for artificial intelligence. According to the McKinsey Global Institute’s Connectedness Index, which measures the size of inflows and outflows of goods, services, finance, people, and data relative to a country’s GDP, China has climbed from number twenty-five to number seven in recent years. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 332

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing later: how does China’s rise as data hub complicate the data-colonialism frame, which presumes a US/EU-centered analysis?
• XREF: connects to: Social quantification is a core policy goal and geopolitical arena in China — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 50; China operates a self-contained cloud empire as advanced as the West’s — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 210; Data colonialism is not a Western-only project but operates globally and within societies — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 100 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Data colonialism is not a Western-only project but operates globally and within societies #corroborates (0.82) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 100
• Western primacy will erode as power diffuses to Asian civilizations and China #corroborates (0.80) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 223
• China is exporting surveillance technologies developed in Xinjiang to other societies #exemplifies (0.78)