The inception of Digital Silk Road The Belt and Road Initiative which was formally launched by China in 2013 consisted of the “Silk Road Economic Belt” and “Twenty-First Century Maritime Silk Road”, was predominantly focused to address the existing gaps in infrastructure investment across regions. Physical connectivity such as roads, railways and building ports; are some of the major aspects of this mammoth infrastructure investment project. Simultaneously, the BRI has also diversified to an “Aerial Silk Road” and “Polar Silk Road”. Yet another aspect of the BRI which was gradually adopted was the “Digital Silk Road” (DSR)....