In terms of new technologies for policing and prevention of urban violence, China is a global benchmark. These are new digital technologies from the Fourth Industrial Revolution, such as AI e Big Data, which would solve from social inequalities to deficits in urban infrastructure. China, through smart cities projects, plans to lead the digital revolution to become an example of prosperous and intelligent society. It intends not only to implement this project domestically, but also to export it as a development model based on innovation and technology. However, there are resistance to this model, seen by the US and many of its allies as China s strategy to move globally, but in a predatory and authoritarian way, by establishing new patterns of external dependence through trade, investment and technology. China, as a new digital power, would also be a threat in attempting to replicate social control and mass surveillance systems through its public surveillance and facial recognition systems. Once China has been closing strategic partnerships around the world, firms and governments need to have a clear position in the face of a possible global reconfiguration and be prepared for the challenge of adapting itselves to the digital revolution, taking into account the impacts that the Chinese model can cause not only in terms of opportunities, but also cost-benefit and socioeconomic risks, due to local specificities, historical crises and structural problems.