Aynne Kokas, the C.K. Yen Professor at the Miller Center and an associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, spoke about her book _Trafficking Data: How China is

Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty. _Kokas explained how the asymmetry in digital regulations between the United States and China, along with practices of private industry, have

helped empower Beijing’s broader effort to control digital data. Image: Government.Ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons