Tag: news
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Q1 2026: The Quarter That Rewrote the Risk Map
Q1 2026 did not ease in gently. The first three months of the year delivered a sequence of shocks that would have been considered unthinkable in any previous year, but increasingly looks like the new normal. On 3 January, US forces arrested Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro following airstrikes on military sites in Caracas, upending the…
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Malaysia’s AI Schrödinger’s Cat is out of the box
Three weeks ago, Malaysia’s Deputy Minister for Communications launched the country’s own sovereign, full-stack Artificial Intelligence ecosystem. The initiative, named “Strategic AI Infrastructure”, is powered by Huawei’s Ascend chips. Malaysia’s bold initiative is slated to be the first in the region and first-of-its-kind outside of China. Shockingly, the announcement was retracted a day later, followed…
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South China Sea – Geopolitical circus serves no ones’ interest
The South China Sea has once again caught headlines, with China and Philippines’ recent planting of national flags on a small and seemingly insignificant spit of land. Sandy Cay is a tiny sandbank in the disputed Spratly islands being claimed by both countries. Under UNCLOS, it is defined as a “rock” located in an expansive…
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