AI reckoning makes South Korean economy run for cover
TOKYO — South Korea has outrun the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the 2008 Lehman shock, and the 2013…
Blind spot: The hidden workers behind Indonesia’s digital boom
Today, Indonesia stands as one of the most formidable digital economic powerhouses in Southeast Asia. Bank Indonesia recorded…
What Indonesia’s finance chief really brought back from Beijing
When Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa landed in Beijing last week, the official agenda appeared straightforward: secure support…
The leakage and lies keeping Indonesia’s rupiah weak
Indonesia embodies one of the strangest paradoxes in emerging-market economics. Every time global commodity prices, from coal to…
Bank of Japan squeezed by Takaichi, Trump and Iran war inflation
Speaking on Wednesday (May 27), Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda cautioned that central banks must prevent this…
MSCI’s Indonesia purge exposes a deeper market crisis
The May 2026 rebalancing by Morgan Stanley Capital International may go down as one of the most consequential…
Why the world needs a China Shock 2.0
The global economic discourse in this spring of 2026 is dominated by a single, apprehensive phrase: China Shock…
NVIDIA’s $2 billion sprinkler remaking the AI supply chain
These days, it seems that if NVIDIA needs something to be secured, it writes a US$2 billion check.…
Nvidia chip curbs turn Singapore into AI hub for China
The United States’ export controls aimed at restricting China’s access to Nvidia’s advanced artificial intelligence chips are unlikely…
Beyond hope and hype: five certainties in the AI storm
The just-published Anthropic paper by Massenkoff and McCrory is a genuinely careful, well-intentioned and much-needed piece of work.…
Superintelligence is already here and now
People argue back and forth about when artificial superintelligence will arrive. The truth is that it’s already here.…
China building a different AI future than the West
The headlines are predictable by now. The United States restricts chip exports. Chinese labs release competitive models. Pundits…