ReConnect China & CHERN Podcast: China’s Digital Silk Road to Switzerland
Turun yliopisto25 Apr 2025

ReConnect China & CHERN Podcast: China’s Digital Silk Road to Switzerland

In this episode, we trace China’s Digital Silk Road (DSR) into Western Europe. Dr. Lena Kaufmann unpacks the “downstream effects” of Chinese digital infrastructures in Switzerland—an often-overlooked BRI country. Drawing on her chapter in Seeing China’s Belt and Road (Schatz & Silvey, eds. 2025), she brings the buried materialities of fiber-optic networks into view and rethinks how to conceptualize the DSR—historically, discursively and materially—beyond broad geopolitical narratives. Drawing on ethnographic and archival insights, we discuss how Swiss and Chinese actors have long been entangled in the construction of digital infrastructures, why the DSR is less unidirectional and top-down than often assumed, and how current dynamics—including new U.S. tariffs—may shape its future. Hosted by Dr. Richard Turcsányi, Assistant Professor at Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic; featuring Dr. Lena Kaufmann, SNSF Ambizione Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology University of Fribourg Link to the book Seeing China’s Belt and Road: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/seeing-chinas-belt-and-road-9780197789261?cc=ch&lang=en& Download link to the chapter (Accepted Author Manuscript): https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-257849 ReConnect China - Generating independent knowledge for a resilient future with China for Europe and its citizens. Find out more about the project here: www.reconnect-china.ugent.be/ CHERN – the China in Europe Research Network – is a platform for knowledge exchange about China in Europe among academic and non-academic communities. Find out more about the project here china-in-europe.net/ Transcript: https://www.utu.fi/fi/ajankohtaista/podcast/reconnect

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