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In Beijing, strategic elites have started to see world politics as sliding from the Spring and Autumn period to the Warring States era. However, if China believes the old order is falling apart, its future will depend less on economic power and more on presenting a reliable political vision.

For two decades, the global technology industry operated on an unchallenged assumption that cloud infrastructure existed beyond the reach of physical conflict. Companies planned for geopolitical risk in supply chains, energy markets and financial systems, but rarely extended that planning to the digital infrastructure those systems depend on.

“The use of large AI models in China’s financial sector is still at an early stage,” said Marshall Li, a Hong Kong-based associate at The Asia Group who is tracking China’s AI-governance regime. “State-owned financial institutions have not fully integrated AI into their core operations yet, because China is focused on avoiding major financial risks,

Greg is joined by Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani, Associated Vice President at The Asia Group, to discuss the latest updates from Malaysian domestic politics in the aftermath of a “corporate mafia” political scandal. Japhet and Lauren cover the latest, from Myanmar’s leadership change to tech investments in Thailand.

Ambassador Daniel Kritenbrink says the US still has ‘extraordinary’ influence in the region, given its trade and security ties with Asean. The US war on Iran has triggered the worst energy crisis in memory and punched a hole in Southeast Asia’s energy-importing economies. Still, a top former US diplomat insists America remains a dependable ally

Daniel Kritenbrink of The Asia Group discusses how the U.S.’ war on Iran has impacted China’s confidence in its’ standing on the world stage, as well as the direction in its’ relations with the U.S..

“While companies building space-based surveillance platforms may see a fillip, the gains are unlikely to be uniform across all space technologies, said Col (retd) Shailender Arya, senior advisor at global strategic advisory firm, The Asia Group. “It is important to note that space technologies are being fused with artificial intelligence in the ongoing conflict for

Vietnam is “a minor economic miracle here in Southeast Asia, but it’s run up against some pretty significant roadblocks,” said Daniel Kritenbrink, who was US ambassador to Vietnam fro 2017 to 2021 and is now a partner with The Asia Group consultancy. For many years, reform, innovation and even growth were stymied by an anti-corruption

“Neither side wants to rock the boat too much,” said George Chen, partner and co-chair of digital practice at The Asia Group. “The most important thing right now is head-of-state diplomacy.”

“The competition between domestic Chinese tech players [is] heating up again, which I believe is a good thing, you know, from the perspective of innovation,” said George Chen, a tech analyst with the Asia Group in Hong Kong. Chen says the spending on holiday promotions gave him a sense of deja vu. A decade ago, Alibaba