Oxford Technology & Security Nexus — "Cloud empires’ physical footprint: How trade and security politics shape the global expansion of U.S. and Chinese data centre infrastructures"

This week, Dr. Vili Lehdonvirta and Boxi Wu will be presenting on their paper (written in conjunction with Zoe Hawkins): “Cloud empires’ physical footprint: How trade and security politics shape the global expansion of U.S. and Chinese data centre infrastructures”

Paper Abstract

China’s Military Rise: Two decades of catch up with the USA

Despite growing concerns over China’s military build-up and modernization there have been few attempts to understand the growth of China’s defence budget, its comparative size or composition. Available estimates of China’s military spending range implausibly from one quarter of the USA to near parity and, since the end of the Cold War, no statistical agencies or defence departments have reported international comparisons of real defence spending.

The nationalisation of rice. The postwar global crisis and the emergence of India’s national economy

Jon Wilson is a historian of South Asian and, more recently, global politics based at King’s College London, where he is currently Head of History. He has published The Domination of Strangers. Modern Governance in Eastern India, 1780-1835 (2007) and India Conquered. Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire (2017), and is currently writing a global history of the emergence of the nation state in the twentieth century.
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