Tech & Innovation
Digital Authoritarianism Goes Global: Lessons from Iran’s Communication Crackdown
In mid-2025, Iranian diaspora communities calling home were met not with the voices of loved ones but with robotic interruptions, prerecorded warnings, and abrupt...
From Swords to Algorithms: Reimagining Sun Tzu in the Age of AI
The Art of War by Sun Tzu has been the basis of all strategy in the hundreds of years before and even in modern...
From Fragmented Globalisation to Cohesive Intelligence: How AI Is Quietly Redefining the World Order
The early promise of globalisation was straightforward but ambitious — to bring the world together into one marketplace, where capital, labour, technology, and ideas...
China’s New K Visa: A Strategic Play for Global Tech Talent
As the U.S. raises costs for foreign skilled workers, Beijing is seizing the opportunity with its new K visa program designed to lure international...
The New Geopolitics of Technology
The recent technology investment agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom deserves attention well beyond the headlines about billions of pounds, new...
Beijing Bets on AI to Strengthen Ties with the Global South
By marking the United Nations Day of the Developing Global South on September 12, 2025, China emphasizes the need to develop and coordinate new...
Deepfakes and the Fragility of Democracy: Lessons from Indonesia for the Global South
In August 2025, I witnessed firsthand how Indonesia was shaken by a deepfake video of Finance Minister Sri Mulyani. The manipulated footage—showing her delivering...
Shiyan‑28B and China’s Space “Dogfights”
Authors: Dr. Rizwan Naseer and Wadan Ahmad Jan Khan*
On July 3, 2025, the People’s Republic of China launched a satellite called “Shiyan-28B” aboard a...
Who Controls the Chips, Controls the World: The Silicon Cold War
The great power struggle of the twenty-first century is no longer waged in battlefields or oil markets. It is now fought in the microscopic...
Taiwan Powers AI: The Hardware Realignment
Innovative technologies, including artificial intelligence, have ceased to be a niche technology, becoming the mainstay of modern economies. Hyperscalers and enterprise artificial intelligence solutions,...