China’s growing technological expertise along its digital silk road is expected to set benchmarks for the rest of the world to follow, according to analysts. President Xi’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) started down the digital silk road long before the rest of the world began talking about connected smart cities and technology driven solutions. As China continues to expand its digital footprint in sectors as diverse as cloud computing, 5G, surveillance technology and virtual currency, observers see movement in some areas toward Chinese technological dominance. Dale Aluf, Director of Research & Strategy at SIGNAL (Sino-Israel Global Network &…