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Strategic Foundations
This section frames China’s coordinated use of AI, large language models, and digital human systems as a state-directed infrastructure for technological sovereignty, ideological projection, and global soft-power expansion through culture, governance, and the Belt and Road.
China’s Accelerated Rise in AI Power and Global Competition
Examines China’s overarching AI vision and its implications for technological sovereignty and global influence.
The Chinese Communist Party’s Engagement with Digital Human Technology
Analyzes how digital human systems are embedded in governance, propaganda, and state ideology.
Animating the Belt and Road Through Digital Humans
Investigates how virtual avatars are deployed in the Belt and Road Initiative to extend China’s cultural and political soft power.
China's Hundred Model War and the Race That Reshaped Global AI
Explores the LLM arms race in China and the implications for national and global NLP dominance.
China's 100 Digital Humans Plan Vanished Before It Delivered
Describes a strategic initiative to export Chinese identity through digital human IPs and cultural avatars.