After the Bangkok Blueprint, Can ASEAN’s Financial Systems Still Fail Separately?
The Bangkok Blueprint calls for cooperation against cross-border financial fraud. As ASEAN deepens digital integration and expands its role in the global AI economy,...
Beyond Critical Infrastructure: When Does Cyber Disruption Become a National Security Question?
In October 2026, a cyberattack on French supermarkets demonstrated how ordinary refrigeration equipment could become a source of physical damage. Remote controls were manipulated,...
Indonesia’s Rising Digital Power: From Market Influence to Global Coordination
In June 2026, Indonesia's Deputy Minister of Communications and Digital Nezar Patria put Indonesia's share of ASEAN's digital economy at around 40 percent, a figure...
The Next AI Crisis May Begin With the Wrong Suspect
Earlier this year, while the war with Iran was still under way, the US military came close to boarding a Chinese vessel transiting the...
The Cost of Proof Will Decide the Winners of US–China Decoupling
Every export increasingly carries two products: the good itself and the evidence that makes it admissible. The cost of producing the second may determine...
India Is Building a Third Way for BRICS’ Digital Economy
The 2026 BRICS Summit in New Delhi may be remembered for more than debates over de-dollarization, geopolitical rivalry, and the growing weight of the...
The AI Race May Be Measuring the Wrong Kind of Power
Why ecosystem diffusion may matter as much as frontier supremacy
On 3 September, two announcements offered different views of AI power. OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra,...
Can BRICS Build a Payment Ecosystem Without Becoming a Financial Bloc?
The most consequential expansion of BRICS may happen without a new currency, a dramatic fall in dollar reserves, or another flag being added to...
Southeast Asia Could Become Indispensable to AI Without Becoming More Powerful
Southeast Asia may be winning the race to host the AI economy before it has answered a more uncomfortable question: how much power will...
Agentic Financial Fraud Is Becoming a Test of State Capacity
On 31 July 2026, OpenAI disclosed that it had disrupted a Cambodia-based criminal operation using ChatGPT to support investment, romance, gambling, and law-enforcement impersonation scams. The...