China gives chipmakers easier subsidy access to help guide industry recovery: Report

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China is facilitating easier access to subsidies and more control over state-backed research for a handful of its chip companies, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday (Mar 21). Chipmakers such as Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC), Hua Hong Semiconductor and Huawei, as well as equipment suppliers like Naura and Advanced Micro-FabricationContinue Reading

Foreign policy of an anxious adolescent superpower

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Filipino fishermen eat a meal aboard their boat overlooking Chinese fishing vessels. Photo: Reuters/Erik De Castro

China’s extremely successful economic development brings two predicaments, one domestic and one foreign. Domestically, rapid development quickly makes the economy and society more complex. An agricultural economy with basic industries suddenly has thousands of interconnected industries, a complicated technology sector and a highly differentiated services sector. A complex economy brings with it a complex society. […]Continue Reading

AI grows more powerful while we become more predictable

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With any groundbreaking new technology, the pace of adoption climbs quickly. Over the past two decades, new platforms and tools, from the iPhone to TikTok, have seen progressively faster adoption rates. The adoption rate of ChatGPT, the artificial-intelligence (AI) large language model owned by OpenAI, is unlike anything we have ever seen. Within five days of release, […]Continue Reading

NTT, KDDI tie-up aims to set 6G global standard

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TOKYO – NTT and KDDI, Japan’s top two telecom carriers, will cooperate in developing new telecom technology that aims for a 125-times increase in transmission capacity, a 100-times increase in energy efficiency and a 200-times reduction in end-to-end delay (latency) for mobile and optical networks. If successful, they could potentially set the global standard for […]Continue Reading

Samsung plans world’s largest high-tech chip cluster

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Samsung Electronics has announced plans to build five new semiconductor factories south of Seoul over the next 20 years in a bid to close the gap with Taiwan’s TSMC in the integrated circuit (IC) foundry business while maintaining its leading position in memory chips. The factories will be the core of what the South Korean […]Continue Reading

Divergent perceptions of China impact geopolitics 

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Countries in the Middle East view China’s growing power and influence in starkly different terms from the US and many of its Western allies. These alternative strategic perceptions are likely to have a decisive impact on geopolitics in the years to come. In some ways, they already are.  Western perceptions align US policymakers on both […]Continue Reading

Putin-Xi summit has only limited chance to resolve Ukraine crisis

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Monday marks the 20th anniversary of the United States’ ground invasion of Iraq in 2003. So on Monday afternoon when Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping sit down in Moscow for an informal lunch and one-on-one talks that will be followed by a formal delegation-level dialogue the next morning, they will surely be reminded of their […]Continue Reading