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The Digital War

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How China’s Tech Power Shapes the Future of AI, Blockchain and Cyberspace

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<p><b>What new directions in China&rsquo;s digital economy mean for us all</b>&nbsp;</p> <p>China is the largest homogenous digital market on Earth: unified by language, culture, and mobile&nbsp;payments.&nbsp;Not only&nbsp;a consumer market of unrivaled size,&nbsp;it&rsquo;s also a&nbsp;vast and hyperactive innovation ecosystem for new technologies. And&nbsp;as&nbsp;China&rsquo;s digital economy moves from a consumer-focused phase to an enterprise-oriented one, Chinese companies are rushing to capitalize on ways&nbsp;the&nbsp;newer&nbsp;wave of&nbsp;tech&mdash;the Internet of Things, AI, blockchain, cloud computing, and data analytics (iABCD)&mdash;can unlock value for their businesses from non-traditional angles.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>In&nbsp;<i>China&rsquo;s Data Economy</i>, Winston Ma&mdash;investment professional, capital markets attorney, adjunct professor of digital economy, and bestselling author&mdash;details the profound global implications of this new direction, including how Chinese apps for services such as food delivery expand so quickly they surpass their U.S.&nbsp;models within a couple of years,&nbsp;and how&nbsp;the sheer scale and pace of Chinese innovation might lead to an AI arms race&nbsp;in which&nbsp;China and the U.S.&nbsp;vie&nbsp;aggressively&nbsp;for leadership.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <ul style=”margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: medium; margin-top: 0in; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; cursor: text; overflow: visible;” type=”disc”> <li style=”margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 20.25pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; vertical-align: baseline; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; cursor: text; overflow: visible;”>How China&rsquo;s younger&nbsp;netizens&nbsp;participate&nbsp;in their evolving&nbsp;digital economy as consumers, creators, and entrepreneurs&nbsp;</li> <li style=”margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 20.25pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; vertical-align: baseline; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; cursor: text; overflow: visible;”>Why Online/Office (OMO, Online-merge-with-Offline) integration is viewed as the natural next step on from the O2O (Online-to-Offline) model used in the rest of the world&nbsp;</li> <li style=”margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 20.25pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; vertical-align: baseline; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; cursor: text; overflow: visible;”>The ways in which traditional Chinese industries such as retail, banking, and insurance are&nbsp;innovating to stay in the game&nbsp;</li> <li style=”margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 20.25pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; vertical-align: baseline; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; cursor: text; overflow: visible;”>What emerging markets can learn from China as they&nbsp;leapfrog&nbsp;past&nbsp;the personal computer age altogether, diving&nbsp;straight into&nbsp;the&nbsp;mobile-first economy&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p>Anyone interested in what&rsquo;s next for Chinese digital&nbsp;powerhouses&mdash;investors, governments, entrepreneurs, international business players&mdash;will find this an essential guide to what lies ahead as China&rsquo;s&nbsp;flexes new digital muscles to create new forms of value and challenge established tech giants&nbsp;across the world.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>