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Analysis Beijing’s cloud push in Seoul risks undermining US-South Korea tech cooperationAlibaba Cloud gains ground in ROK, deepening China’s ties with Korean firms despite US calls for digital decoupling Alibaba Cloud’s expansion in South Korea exposes structural contradictions in the country’s digital sovereignty strategy, revealing the limits of Seoul’s regulatory alignment with Washington amid deepening geopolitical competition with Beijing. CHINA’S STRATEGIC INVESTMENT By the end of June, Alibaba Cloud — a cloud computing company and a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, a multinational Chinese tech company — will open a second data center in South Korea, reinforcing Beijing’s Digital Silk Road strategy and embedding Chinese cloud infrastructure deeper into the digital ecosystems of a U.S. ally. This expansion is part of a broader $53 billion (380 billion RMB © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |





