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such as Alibaba, Huawei, Ten- BRI and its segments like DSR ment, and innovation in fields um for greater digital outreach
cent, Baidu, Epson and Infos- are fundamentally geo-political like machine learning and IT. to non-industrial economies
ys (among others). and unilateral in nature. For New Delhi, the strate- to garner greater political and
In India, the conversation As the US seeks to bal- gic ramifications of DSR are geo-economic power prev-
on BRI has been a part of the ance—if not counter—the unmistakable. Beijing is clearly alence in Asia (especially in
strategic discourse for long, emerging Chinese superpower, employing the DSR as a medi- Southeast Asia) and beyond.
however, the growing concern India’s vast size, geographical
about DSR, because of its over- location, and wealth of skilled Jagannath P. Panda is Research Fellow at Manohar Parrikar Institute
bearing security and strategic information technology (IT) for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi
ramifications, has been more professionals are more import- Views expressed are of the author and do not necessarily reflect the
evident in the recent past. ant than ever before. India is
Albeit projected by the Chi- gradually moving up the val- views of the Manohar Parrikar IDSA or of the Government of India.
nese government as a world- ue chain when it comes to ad- This is the abridged version of the article which appeared first in the
wide advancement project, the vanced technologies, with more Comment section of the website (www.idsa.in) of Manohar Parrikar In-
goals and applications of the focus on research and develop- stitute for Defense Studies and Analyses, New Delhi on August 24, 2021

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