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Chokepoints expose fragility of our global order
Oped, Todd G Buchholz, Published on 22/04/2026
» Most schoolchildren learn that the Earth is roughly 40,000km around. They do not learn that the global economy depends on just 160 of those kilometres.
False promises no solution to empty pockets
Oped, Saritdet Marukatat, Published on 30/03/2026
» Thailand has returned to a painful reality under a new government still fresh from the political rhetoric bandied about during the election campaign.
The crisis in West's AI industry needs attention
News, Charles Ferguson, Published on 10/02/2025
» The release of the Chinese DeepSeek-R1 large language model, with its impressive capabilities and low development cost, shocked financial markets and led to claims of a "Sputnik moment" in artificial intelligence. But a powerful, innovative Chinese model achieving parity with US products should come as no surprise. It is the predictable result of a major US and Western policy failure, for which the AI industry itself bears much of the blame.
Taiwan signals new openness to nuclear power
News, Matthew Winkler, Miaojung Lin, Debby Wu and Yian Lee, Published on 23/10/2024
» Taiwan is "very open" to using new nuclear technology to meet surging demand from chipmakers devouring electricity in the AI boom, according to Premier Cho Jung-tai -- one of the strongest signs yet that the government is rethinking its opposition to reactors.
Arizona aspires to be chip off the Taiwanese block
Oped, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Published on 21/09/2024
» Contrary to expectations, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) semiconductor plant in Arizona is reportedly on track to meet its 2025 production targets. This announcement poses a challenge to the many observers who predicted that the effort to bring chip manufacturing back to the United States would fail. What went right this time?
India needs big businesses to break through
News, Keun Lee, Published on 02/09/2024
» At a time of growing doubts about China's economic prospects, India's rise has been attracting increasing attention, with some predicting that the country will become the developing world's next economic superstar. Whether you believe India can be the "next China", however, may depend on whether you subscribe more to "young" or "old" Schumpeterian logic.
Time to stop making empty promises
Oped, Chartchai Parasuk, Published on 07/03/2024
» The Nikkei 225 Index just broke 40,000, surpassing the record high of 1989. The stellar stock market performance happened amid the fact that Japan's economy is officially in recession after two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth.
How the United States' CHIPS Act hurts Taiwan
Oped, Chang-Tai Hsieh, Burn Lin & Chintay Shih, Published on 01/03/2024
» The concentration of advanced semiconductor manufacturing in Taiwan has raised fears in the United States about the vulnerability of this supply chain should China blockade or invade the island. The US CHIPS and Science Act seeks to address that vulnerability with $52 billion (1.86 trillion baht) in subsidies to encourage semiconductor manufacturers to relocate to America. But the legislation, as designed, will fall short of its objective; it may even weaken Taiwan's most important industry, further threatening the island's security.
Fragile supply chains will rebuild
News, Tim Culpan, Published on 27/12/2023
» Pick a single item from an array of shocks and you can see just how fragile global supply chains truly are. But combine climate change, decoupling from China, unprecedented technological development, wars, rising costs and labour shortages, and we now have an amalgam of catalysts that will change global trade for the better.
Protectionism started the geopolitical fire
Oped, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Published on 04/10/2023
» It has been puzzling to see many prominent economists decry the Trump administration's tariffs as welfare-reducing protectionism while approving of the Biden administration's even more drastic steps to reshore, friend-shore, and decouple from China.