For decades, globalization was widely accepted as an almost inevitable trajectory. The more open an economy, the prevailing logic held, the greater its prospects for growth. Frictionless ports, low tariffs, investment deregulation, and unrestricted capital flows were treated as the essential ingredients of economic advancement. Countries competed to become nodes of global trade, dismantling barriers … Read more
In 2016, Singapore’s then-Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen was asked in Parliament how the country would respond if the United States were to pull back from its security commitments in Asia. At the time, the question was hypothetical. Today, with Donald Trump in his second term and Ng stepping down after 14 years as Singapore’s … Read more
The recent rise of DeepSeek and Alibaba’s Qwen artificial intelligence platforms is a hot topic among technology experts and investors in China and the United States. Yet specific information about the Chinese engineering teams remains scarce. An Asia Times analysis using public information on the backgrounds of the two chatbots’ developers may help draw a … Read more