The digital silk road featured prominently in Chinese President Xi Jinping's keynote speech to the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), in which he promised that Beijing would fund 10 digital economy projects in the continent over the next three years. In his address via video link, Xi reiterated his vision for a digital silk road (DSR), first articulated in a 2015 government white paper as part of China's global infrastructure plan, the Belt and Road Initiative. The DSR covers e-commerce, smart cities, undersea fibre optic cables, 5G, data centres, smartphones, internet of things, artificial intelligence, and fintech. Do you have…