Geopolitics
America's Digital Fortress: How Data Restrictions Target the Global South's Rise
The US is enacting new cross-border data restrictions, particularly on health data flows to countries like China, citing national security and AI competition as primary drivers. This reveals a hypocritical and protectionist American agenda that seeks to cripple the technological rise of the Global South under the guise of security, all while maintaining its own data hegemony and imperial control over global digital infrastructure.