{"id":42498,"date":"2026-08-18T12:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=42498"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:05:13","slug":"china-built-data-center-stirs-debate-on-pakistans-digital-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=42498","title":{"rendered":"China-built data center stirs debate on Pakistan&#039;s digital sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts warn of security risk linked to ZTE&#039;s infrastructure despite domestic military involvement<\/p>\n<p>The launch of Pakistan&#039;s first purpose-built data center to store state-level critical data has raised concerns among experts due to the fact that it was built with technology and equipment supplied by China&#039;s ZTE.\u00a0(Nikkei montage\/Source photos by Reuters and AP)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ISLAMABAD &#8212; Pakistan recently launched its first purpose-built data center dedicated to storing state-level critical data, with technology and equipment supplied by China&#039;s ZTE, a move that raises concerns among experts about Islamabad&#039;s digital sovereignty despite the Pakistan army&#039;s involvement in the project.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/politics\/international-relations\/china-built-data-center-stirs-debate-on-pakistan-s-digital-sovereignty' target='_blank'>Read the original article on asia.nikkei.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts warn of security risk linked to ZTE&#039;s infrastructure despite domestic military involvement The launch of Pakistan&#039;s first purpose-built data center to store state-level critical data has raised concerns among experts due to the fact that it was built with technology and equipment supplied by China&#039;s ZTE.\u00a0(Nikkei montage\/Source photos by Reuters and AP)\u00a0 ISLAMABAD &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}