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Geopolitics

Wealth & Investing
RETHINKING MATTERS

China’s Fourth Plenum – planning or prepping?

To avoid being reduced to a pawn in the superpower competition, Asean needs to act on both tariffs and territorial disputes.
Opinion & Features

US trade war is splintering South-east Asia

Asean cannot afford to let the region become the economic battleground of major powers.
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

Securing the Asean economy in an over-securitised world

Takaichi will likely ask Trump about his wider plans for a regional economic and political framework.
Opinion & Features

Asian geopolitics could shift with Takaichi-Trump meetings

What the meetings between the IMF and World Bank have consistently failed to deliver is clear, coordinated political will to address economic challenges, says the writer.
Opinion & Features

Little reassurance from IMF-World Bank meetings

State leaders in Kuching have demanded that Sarawak’s share of its gas and oil royalties be raised from 5 per cent to 20 per cent.
Opinion & Features
THINKING ALOUD

East Malaysian states’ rights push may upend S-E Asia’s political order

In addition to the decline in scientific collaboration across countries, global companies’ innovation efforts may also be adversely impacted by the growing divergence in technical standards.
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

Borders and breakthroughs: How geopolitics is reshaping corporate innovation

Rare-earth concentrate at Lynas Corp's Perth premises. With funding from the Japanese government, the company started mining rare earths in Australia, processing them in Malaysia and then distributing these minerals, bypassing China.
Opinion & Features

You can fix rare earths for the price of one White House ballroom

The Nexperia case moves the technology battlefield to Europe, a third-placed power in chip manufacturing behind the US and China. 
Opinion & Features

Geopolitics chip at semiconductor sector – in Europe, Asia and beyond

Overall GDP growth and broad stock indexes are being flattered by the torrent of investment into AI and its infrastructure – overshadowing what's really going on Main Street, says the US' NFIB.
Opinion & Features
THE BOTTOM LINE

The ‘phoney trade war’ may be ending

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