In my previous column, I argued that China saw geo-nationalism coming long before the world did. It built digital walls — not out of fear, but foresight — realizing that technology would become the new language of power.
Now, as every major economy scrambles to secure chips, regulate AI, and localize data, the question isn’t whether nations will assert digital sovereignty, but how.
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China’s model is one answer: control, coherence, and closed systems.
The world doesn’t need another version of that.
The next chapter of geo-national tech will be written not in Beijing or Washington — but in Bengaluru.
Because India has the chance to build something truly novel: sovereignty through openness.
China built digital walls. India can build digital bridges.
The World Has Fragmented — and India Holds the Middle
The last two decades of global technology can be divided into three eras.
The supra-national era (2000s–2010s): Silicon Valley built for scale, not sovereignty.
The national security era (2020s): China, the U.S., and Europe pulled tech into the orbit of politics.
And now, the geo-national era (2030s): technology and statec
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