China has made inroads in the Balkans by establishing a “Chinese Digital Silk Road” by providing digital infrastructure in some countries and telecommunications technology in others. China’s digital foothold in the Balkans is expanding, generating concern in the West, notes an editorial in the “War on the Rocks” while Radio Free Europe warns “they are invisible, but everywhere.” What is called the “Chinese Digital Silk Road” is now dominating telecommunications in the Western Balkans, i.e. Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo. The Chinese Digital Silk Road is a crucial part of the Belt and Road Initiative...