43 h. ago Taiwan's $250B Deal and China's H200 Ban Reshape the AI Arms Race

Taiwan's $250B Deal and China's H200 Ban Reshape the AI Arms Race  The Tech Buzz

Economics

4 d. ago Is India fuelling an arms race in Asia or closing a deterrence gap?

In 2025, India approved a number of major defence packages, together worth US$30 billion. Such rapid procurement approvals are relatively rare by Indian standards. However, what they signal to the region will depend less on such announcements and more on actual outcomes. To some observers, especially after India’s four-day clash with Pakistan during what the former called “Operation Sindoor” last May, the surge appears to mark the start of a regional arms race. That interpretation is...

Politics

5 d. ago Meta closes 550,000 Australian children’s accounts, warns ban ‘not meeting objectives’

Meta Platforms said it has shut down almost 550,000 accounts in Australia to comply with the country’s landmark social media ban for children. The social media giant has closed around 330,000 Instagram accounts, 173,000 Facebook accounts and almost 40,000 Threads accounts belonging to people believed to be under 16 years of age, it said in a blog post. The law, which came into effect on December 10, mandates services such as ByteDance’s TikTok and Instagram keep under-16s off their platforms or...

Events

1 week ago Korean peninsula arms race is heating up. How will China react in 2026?

As the new year unfolds, China finds itself grappling with strategic pressures fuelled by two US treaty allies at its doorstep – Japan and South Korea. In the second of a two-part series, Seong Hyeon Choi looks at how competing pressures in the Korean peninsula may complicate China’s security calculus. Read the first part here. In 2025, there was a major shift in China’s security environment relating to the Korean peninsula, as the North grew more open in its push for nuclear weapons and the...

Politics

1 week ago How will China react in 2026 as Korean peninsula arms race heats up?

How will China react in 2026 as Korean peninsula arms race heats up?  South China Morning Post

Politics

1 week ago US attack on Venezuela ‘death certificate’ for UN, will trigger global arms race: analyst

The American attack on Venezuela on Saturday could further undermine international institutions and accelerate a global arms race, analysts warned, with one likening Washington’s actions to issuing a “death certificate” for the United Nations. On Saturday, in a surprise precision operation, the US military struck Venezuela and captured its leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife, who were later placed in detention in New York. President Donald Trump later said the US would run the South American...

Events

2 w. ago China’s Laser Leap: Beijing Is Quietly Winning the Next Arms Race

China’s Laser Leap: Beijing Is Quietly Winning the Next Arms Race  The National Interest

Politics

2 w. ago How AI helped Asia’s real estate sector pass the tariff stress test

When US President Donald Trump stood outside the White House on April 2 and unveiled his punitive “Liberation Day” tariffs on most US trading partners, Asia was singled out for particularly harsh punishment. With the region accounting for seven of the 10 economies with the largest trade surpluses with the US, Asia was bound to be hit hard. However, as 2025 draws to a close, Asia’s economies have shown remarkable resilience. While several factors are at play, the most important one is the boom in...

Politics

2 w. ago LandSpace moves China’s space sector closer to the SpaceX model

LandSpace moves China’s space sector closer to the SpaceX model  Tech Wire Asia

Technology

2 w. ago South Korea closes 4,000 schools permanently amid demographic crisis

More than 4,000 elementary, middle and high schools across South Korea have shut their doors as the country’s student population shrinks, new data shows. According to the Ministry of Education’s latest figures, revealed on Sunday by Representative Jin Sun-mee of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea, 4,008 schools under 17 regional education offices nationwide have closed so far as student numbers continue to decline. Junior schools account for most closures, with 3,674 shut down permanently,...

Events

3 w. ago With 1MDB verdict due, will Malaysia’s Najib have to ‘prepare for the worst’?

Malaysia’s High Court is poised on Friday to deliver its verdict in the final criminal trial of jailed former prime minister Najib Razak, bringing to a close one of Southeast Asia’s most far-reaching corruption sagas. The case centres on allegations that the disgraced 72-year-old misappropriated 2.3 billion ringgit (US$490 million) from the scandal-ridden Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). Najib is currently in Kajang Prison, over halfway through a sentence...

Politics

3 w. ago Pentagon's 'LEAKED' Report Claims China Loaded 100+ ICBMs As Beijing Rejects Arms Race Charges

Pentagon's 'LEAKED' Report Claims China Loaded 100+ ICBMs As Beijing Rejects Arms Race Charges  Times of India

Politics

3 w. ago Alibaba’s DingTalk rolls out Agent OS as it bets bigger on AI agents

DingTalk, the workplace collaboration app developed by Alibaba Group Holding, has unveiled a dedicated operating system and new enterprise hardware as it steps up its push into AI agents amid an intensifying arms race among China’s tech giants. At an event in Hangzhou on Tuesday, the Alibaba unit launched Agent OS, an operating system designed specifically for AI agents, alongside DingTalk Real, a hardware suite that serves as a physical terminal for running those agents. Alibaba owns the South...

Politics

4 w. ago How China's underdog status in the AI arms race is fueling their approach

How China's underdog status in the AI arms race is fueling their approach  KUOW

Politics

last month US–China clash escalates: Taiwan arms deal, AI race, Panama Canal standoff

US–China clash escalates: Taiwan arms deal, AI race, Panama Canal standoff  Fox Business

Politics

last month China’s strategic missile defense exacerbates arms race instability

China’s strategic missile defense exacerbates arms race instability  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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