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cjers-4952	Silva, Flávio	The Digital Silk Road in Europe: China’s Soft Power Maneuvers at Euro 2024	2025	20	.pdf	application/pdf	8881	617	56	Bridging Theory and Practice: Digital Silk Road, Soft Power, and Public Diplomacy The BRI was first announced through two separate proposals by Xi Jinping: in September 2013, during a visit to Kazakhstan, he proposed the creation of a “new Silk Road” linking China and Central Asia (China Daily 2013a), and in October of the same year, during a visit to Indonesia, he introduced the idea of a “Maritime Silk Road” connecting China and Southeast Asia (China Daily 2013b). A few months later, during the China-EU Digital Cooperation Forum, the first official reference to the “Digital Silk Road” was made, a challenge that was reiterated during the 15th Forum on Internet Media in China, where Chinese companies and media operating online were urged to assist in expanding international trade and digital banking services along the Belt and Road (China Daily 2015).	cache/cjers-4952.pdf	txt/cjers-4952.txt