Strategic Foundations

Frames China’s digital humans within the state’s larger AI ambition, tracing the strategy, ideology, and soft-power design that treat synthetic figures as national infrastructure rather than novelty.

1. China’s Accelerated Rise in AI Power and Global Competition - Traces how state coordination, algorithmic efficiency, and deployment scale let China clear its 2030 AI targets years early while remaining hostage to a single, stubborn compute bottleneck.
2. China’s Hundred Model War and the Race That Reshaped Global AI - Reframes the post-ChatGPT explosion of Chinese large language models as an engineered mobilisation designed to winnow a durable few from a deliberately overcrowded field.
3. The Chinese Communist Party’s Engagement with Digital Human Technology - Charts the Party’s progression from scattered newsroom experiments to a nationwide ecosystem that enlists the digital human at once as pedagogue, broadcaster, bureaucrat, and ideological messenger.
4. Animating the Belt and Road Through Digital Humans - Argues that digital humans intersect the Belt and Road chiefly through commerce rather than statecraft, a connection analysts have largely inferred rather than found in any policy document.
5. China’s 100 Digital Humans Plan Vanished Before It Delivered - Uses the quietly expired Nvwa Plan to build one hundred culturally rooted digital human IPs as a clean case study in the distance between institutional ambition and operational delivery.