Analysis Of The New Digital Power In The United States Under The Background Of Value Chain Digitization

From the correlation in the economic field to the power relations in international politics,the global value chain including the flow of products and factors enables the dominant country to rely on its productivity advantages and other countries’ dependence in the value chain,through the allocation of factors and profits,to project traditional power and structural power.Economic globalization and information revolution have promoted the upgrading of industrial structure in developing countries,while the post-war industrial structure adjustment of the United States has also resulted in the relative weakening of manufacturing strength.However,from the perspective of value chain digitization,the operation mode of the United States in the value chain can also reflect its new characteristics of "digital power".The existing researches have discussed the shaping of value chain in digital economy era in detail.Taking the global value chain as the analysis framework,this paper explains the digital power of the United States in the new form of value chain based on the prominent features of digital technology and the factor flow of high-end manufacturing products,as well as the platform mode derived from digital information elements in the process of value chain digitization.From the perspective of "digital technology and hardware power",this study presents the actual dominant position of the United States and the challenge of China,Japan and other countries to their position by virtue of their own advantages through the calculation of semiconductor hardware export capacity,input-output relationship between countries and participation in the value chain.And combined with the hardware supply,technology blockade and other cases,the digital power is explained.From the perspective of "platform digital power" formed by the global distribution of digital platforms,the information flow formed by the productization of data has shaped a new digital value chain,allowing the platform,as an important distributor of data,to control and influence.This paper analyzes the expansion path and oligopagic power of American digital platforms,as well as their more rapid and covert cross-border strike capability.From the results of power operation,it can be seen that the platform data grab,which lacks technology diffusion,exacerbates the phenomenon of digital divide while exercising digital control over other countries.Based on the classification of digital power,this paper further analyzes the limits of digital power expansion in the United States and the development opportunities of each country in the value chain dimension.The power of digital technology and hardware is subject to the interrelation of traditional value chain forms,and the implementation of power may have an impact on their own industrial stability,while the traditional division of labor means that there is still technology diffusion within the value chain,which objectively drives the upgrading of industrial structure in some countries.Although platform digital power has stronger power monopoly in the value chain,it faces the restriction of global anti-monopoly legislation.In the digital economy era,China has a strong local user market and the scale effect brought by it.Therefore,leveraging advantages of scale and seizing opportunities to grow and strengthen our own digital economy are also key strategic measures of our country to respond to the digital power of the United States at present,promote the orderly and healthy development of the digital industry and improve our international competitiveness.