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Malaysia’s Growing Role In Shifting Power Game In Chip Industry

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Semiconductors are critical components found in everything from smartphones to automobiles, have regained their critical importance in global geopolitical contests and are at the forefront of the US – China rivalry on technology and supremacy in the power equation.
 
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Can The US Compete With China's Belt & Road Initiative?


WASHINGTON, US:Ten years after Chinese President Xi Jinping announced China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Kazakhstan and Indonesia, a new connectivity initiative was unveiled with great fanfare by the United States, India, and the Arab Gulf and European countries during the G20 meeting in New Delhi earlier this month.

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Open Letter To Anwar On China

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia-Malaysia will need more strategic long term calculations on its future economic and geopolitical interests, and start to implement steps to pivot away from overreliance on one economic superpower in safeguarding its short term needs.

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What The Midterms Mean For U.S.-China Tech Competition

MICHIGAN, U.S.--Technological competition with China was not an issue on most voters’ minds during the 2022 midterm elections. The resilience of American democratic institutions, however, was frequently linked to these elections. This connection has implications for long-term technological competition between the United States and China.

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How The US Squandered Its Strategic Minerals

NEW YORK, U.S.--"The PRC's [Communist China's] long-term goal," the Pentagon wrote in 2020, "is to create an entirely self-reliant defense-industrial sector—fused with a strong civilian industrial and technology sector—that can meet the PLA's needs for modern military capabilities."

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China And The Middle East: Heading Into Choppy Waters


SINGAPORE CITY--China could be entering choppy Middle Eastern waters. Multiple crises and conflicts will likely shape its relations with the region’s major powers, including Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkey.

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China's Strategic Dilemmas

SACRAMENTO, U.S.--The war in Ukraine has lasted a month. Russian President Vladimir Putin badly miscalculated and Xi Jinping followed him into a strategic dead-end with no easy exit.

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Nepal Becomes US-China Arm-Wrestling Table

HONG KONG, China--The US-China rivalry over the Indo-Pacific region has spilled over to South Asia and the Himalayan nation of Nepal is the latest to become entangled in the trade war between the superpowers.

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China’s Silence On Nuclear Arms Buildup Fuels Speculation On Motives

CHICAGO, U.S.--The US Defense Department released a report this month that spotlights the Chinese military’s rapid nuclear modernization efforts. The report follows news earlier this year that China constructed potential intercontinental ballistic missile silos and tested an orbital hypersonic missile system.

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Biden Expands US-ASEAN ‘Strategic Partnership’

WASHINGTON, U.S.--U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday rebooted his country’s lapsed relationship with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations by attending the annual meeting of the 10-member bloc virtually and announcing plans to provide up to $102 million to expand the U.S. strategic partnership in the Indo-Pacific region.

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Learning To Manage The China Threat

NEW YORK, U.S.--When US President Bill Clinton backed China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), he suggested that the move would spark profound changes “from the inside out”.

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AUKUS: Restoring the Regional Balance of Power

The recent announcement in Washington of a new tripartite alliance between Australia, the UK, and the US – the awkward acronym AUKUS) – aimed at containing China in the Pacific, is now causing Malaysia and some of its Southeast Asian neighbors to finally face some hard truths about the prevailing regional geopolitical situation.

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