AI reckoning makes South Korean economy run for cover
TOKYO — South Korea has outrun the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the 2008 Lehman shock, and the 2013…
Blind spot: The hidden workers behind Indonesia’s digital boom
Today, Indonesia stands as one of the most formidable digital economic powerhouses in Southeast Asia. Bank Indonesia recorded…
China’s EV fleet is world’s most underestimated AI asset
History has a habit of concealing its most consequential turning points inside the mundane. The invention of the…
What Indonesia’s finance chief really brought back from Beijing
When Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa landed in Beijing last week, the official agenda appeared straightforward: secure support…
Why Xi is walling in China’s money – and why it won’t work
TOKYO – China’s latest fix for its ailing economy: build a better birdcage. The metaphor runs deep in…
Silicon shock: the macro of technology inflation
For a quarter-century, the price of computer software and accessories fell by roughly 5% annually. It was the…
Bank of Japan squeezed by Takaichi, Trump and Iran war inflation
Speaking on Wednesday (May 27), Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda cautioned that central banks must prevent this…
The leakage and lies keeping Indonesia’s rupiah weak
Indonesia embodies one of the strangest paradoxes in emerging-market economics. Every time global commodity prices, from coal to…
Perilous logic behind Indonesia’s commodity export funnel
JAKARTA – When President Prabowo Subianto rose before Indonesia’s plenary parliamentary session on May 20, 2026, few foresaw…
Don’t use GDP to judge China’s strength – look at this instead
When President Donald Trump arrives in Beijing on May 14 for his summit with Xi Jinping, China will…
China overtakes US in R&D, but genesis spark still lags
It finally happened. According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, China invested US$1.03 trillion in research…
Beyond hope and hype: five certainties in the AI storm
The just-published Anthropic paper by Massenkoff and McCrory is a genuinely careful, well-intentioned and much-needed piece of work.…