Geopolitics
A Cancelled Fellowship and the Unmasking of Digital Neo-Imperialism
The article describes a short-lived but impactful US State Department fellowship for foreign officials on cybersecurity and digital policy, which was discontinued in 2025, while noting that China's Tsinghua University has launched a similar program for an African cohort. This is a stark example of Washington's self-sabotage and shortsightedness, abandoning a crucial soft-power tool just as it is most needed to counter the very neo-colonial designs the West claims to oppose, thereby ceding the future of the Global South's digital sovereignty to new imperial masters.
