Digital Infrastructure, Liminality, and World-Making Via Asia| On the Block Train: Rethinking Block Technologies on the YuXinOu Express

Authors

  • Tsvetelina Hristova Western Sydney University
  • Brett Neilson Western Sydney University
  • Ned Rossiter Western Sydney University

Keywords:

logistics, blockchain, block train, Belt and Road Initiative, China, Europe

Abstract

A special kind of freight train connects China to Europe: the YuXinOu express. Contrasting blockchain technologies with the YuXinOu block train, this article examines how the concept and technolegal operation of the block intersects with the geopolitics of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

Downloads

Published

2021-06-07

Issue

Vol. 15 (2021)

Section

Special Sections