Course shows how China created a digital domain that challenges the West

“China: the Technological Dragon” – classes reveal how the Chinese State appropriated digital technologies to build an alternative model to the Western neoliberal model

Amid the crisis of liberal democracies and the dominance of Big Techs over data and information, China has become the main hub of resistance and technological reinvention of the 21st century. While the West deals with the effects of financialization and corporate capture of digital space, the Chinese state is building a sovereign ecosystem in which data, infrastructure and innovation are treated as strategic public goods.

In the contemporary world, the Big Data It is the new oil, the most strategic resource of the 21st century. Understanding how China structured its technological revolution is essential to deciphering the economic, political and geopolitical disputes that shape the global future.

“The technological dispute is the central axis of contemporary geopolitics. China’s rise shifts the center of global power and alters the correlation of forces. With this, Beijing is boosting the Belt and Road to forge a new globalization from the Global South”, explains Diego Pautasso. Isis Maia adds: “By integrating data, algorithms and planning, China inaugurates a new form of socialist rationality — a digital socialism, capable of articulating technology, State and social inclusion in the same architecture of power”.

The course combines theoretical analysis and empirical study, offering a comprehensive overview of the Chinese technological revolution and its global implications. The first class presents the conceptual support — developmental state, innovation policies, state capabilities and the role of the state in the digital economy. The following explore China’s sovereign digital ecosystem, from building infrastructure (the “Golden Projects”) to consolidating Great Firewallfrom the use of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in public governance to the regulation of platforms and the formation of national companies such as Huawei, Tencent and Alibaba. The cycle ends with an analysis of the Sino-American dispute for technological hegemony, discussing chips, 5G, AI and the Digital Belt and Roadin addition to the effects of this reconfiguration on Latin America and mainly Brazil.

Course program

🧭 Target audience: Students, professionals and anyone interested in understanding the technological, political and geopolitical transformations that are redefining the 21st century.

💻 Registration: Registration is open on the Hotmart platform.
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