Is China’s Digital Yuan Becoming a Settlement Tool? The Geopolitics of Monetary Hedging
China’s digital yuan has spent years being judged by the wrong test. Most attention has focused on whether ordinary users would abandon Alipay or...
Why Do National AI Strategies Stall in Southeast Asia?
Three Southeast Asian governments entered the AI race at almost the same time. Indonesia published its Strategi Nasional Kecerdasan Artifisial in 2020. Malaysia followed with its...
From the IAEA to the G7: The Contested Meaning of Global AI Governance
In May 2026, just hours before President Donald Trump met President Xi Jinping, OpenAI’s Vice President of Global Affairs Chris Lehane floated the idea...
AI Cities and the Global South’s Surveillance Trap
For most of history, the state was powerful but partly blind. AI cities may end that blindness, creating a new political temptation: not the...
Digital Cold War: Why the Global South Requires a Digital Non-Aligned Movement
The next cold war may not begin with soldiers crossing borders or missiles moving into position. It may begin with a completed acquisition being...
The Stack as a Strategic Frontier: What France’s Linux Turn Means for the Global South
A software decision with geopolitical weight
The next sovereignty crisis may not begin at the border. It may begin inside the stack. France’s move away...
Claude Mythos and the Global South’s AI Governance Dilemma
Claude Mythos Preview is an experimental AI model built by Anthropic, the company behind the Claude family of models. In early April 2026, Anthropic...
AI Sovereignty and the Global South’s Third Way
When a Regional Crisis Becomes a Global Systems Shock
COVID-19 showed how fragile global interdependence becomes when too much capacity is concentrated in too few...
Beyond the Superpowers: The Rise of a Sovereign AI Axis in Asia
As Amartya Sen once argued, development is ultimately about expanding freedom. In the twenty-first century, that freedom is increasingly mediated by algorithms, data flows,...
The ASEAN AI Dilemma: From Zero-Sum Rivalry to Digital Strategic Autonomy
Across Southeast Asia, competition for AI capital has intensified—and it is no longer subtle. Malaysia has positioned itself as the new hub, offering corporate...