Jonathan E. Hillman is director of the Reconnecting Asia Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. and author of "The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future."
"The future is data," Pakistani President Arif Alvi said recently. "Everything is going to be digital... e-commerce, e-agriculture, e-finance, e-health." But as Pakistan turns to China's Digital Silk Road for those essential functions and more, its quest for development is looking more like dependency.
