KUASIA Administrative Assistant Merve Yahşi's book review on "Beyond Informality: How Chinese Migrants Transformed a Border Economy" by Douglas de Toledo Piza has been published in the International Migration. doi.org/10.1111/imig...

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The private sector’s role seems increasingly significant in Vietnamese state capitalism. But we need this sort of detailed analysis to assess the relative weight of the private and public sectors: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... www.ft.com/content/35a0...

Batı’nın küresel tedarik zincirlerinde Çin’e alternatif arayışı bağlamında sıklıkla gündeme gelen Hindistan’ın bu süreçten neden ciddi ölçüde yararlanamayacağını tarihsel nedenleriyle birlikte konuşmuştuk. Veriler bunu doğruluyor. youtu.be/AmoMFmXe5ak?...

China’s “whole-of-the-nation” drive to reduce dependence on foreign technology in chip production 👇 www.wsj.com/world/china/...

"Russia is set to receive a shipment of fuel from India...The shipment underlines the severity of Russia’s fuel shortages after the strikes cut domestic refining capacity by about 40 per cent." www.ft.com/content/fda9...

Russia forced to import fuel from India as Ukrainian strikes damage refineries

Shipment underlines crisis facing Moscow after drone attacks cut supplies and led to widespread shortages

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"For decades, America’s tech dominance rested on a simple formula: attract the world’s brightest minds and keep them. Yang Zhilin’s story suggests that approach is being tested — not just because the US has become less welcoming but because China has become more magnetic."

Why the US is losing Chinese AI stars

More entrepreneurs from China believe there are now greater opportunities at home than in Silicon Valley

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Why the US is losing Chinese AI stars ft.trib.al/vURKfsy | opinion

"The new measures could be incorporated into the next revision of China’s catalogue of technologies prohibited or restricted from export, the people said, reflecting Beijing’s growing confidence that it has established a global lead in some areas of AI." www.ft.com/content/6049...

China weighs tighter export controls on AI models and chips

Beijing consults companies on ways to stop west acquiring its advanced technologies and star start-ups

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"The greatest consequence of the Iran war may not be the disruption it has caused, but ​the revelation that China now possesses the tools to manage such shocks largely on its own." www.reuters.com/commentary/r...

The NSF "has decided to ban collaborations between every U.S. scientist it funds and nearly all Chinese research institutions and their employees...There are a handful of notable omissions, however, including Tsinghua University." www.science.org/content/arti...

New NSF policy would ban almost all collaborations with Chinese scientists

Agency drops attempt to mitigate risk in favor of outright prohibition on working with most Chinese research institutions

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Sanayi casusluğunun Sanayi Devrimi'nden günümüze değin kapitalistler arasındaki rekabetin ayrılmaz bir unsuru olduğunu konuşmuştuk. youtu.be/_1iHSyqkZoA?... Apple'ın OpenAI'a açtığı dava bunun yeni ve çarpıcı bir örneğini sunuyor. www.ft.com/content/5054...

"The 15th Five-Year Plan wagers that a state-mobilised system can cut across subnational differences and cultivate the open-ended inquiry it has historically struggled to sustain." eastasiaforum.org/2026/05/09/c...

China’s bet on frontier science

The 15th Five-Year Plan seeks to turn China’s industrial strength into frontier science, but structural constraints may determine how far it can go

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"Although China's unemployment rate has hovered around 5%-6% for a decade, gig work has helped keep those numbers in check...Yet an influx of gig workers is increasingly outpacing demand in some sectors, slowing incomes." www.reuters.com/business/wor...

"DeepSeek's chip push coincides with the company's first embrace of outside capital. The company was slated to raise $7 billion in a maiden funding round valuing it at between $52 billion and $59 billion, Reuters reported in June." www.reuters.com/world/china/...

EXCLUSIVE: China's DeepSeek developing its own AI chip, sources say

Chinese startup DeepSeek is developing its own AI chip, according to three people familiar with the matter, a ​push that could reduce its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei chips, which it has depended on ...

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Chinese government is considering the adoption of "a tiered system:basic open-source tools subject to a simple filing, more advanced technologies facing security reviews, and the most sensitive frontier models barred from public release or restricted to domestic use." www.reuters.com/world/beijin...

EXCLUSIVE: Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say

Chinese authorities have held meetings with top tech firms over the past month ​about potentially restricting overseas access to China's most advanced AI models, including those yet to be released, th...

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"The question truly worth asking is: after distillation becomes increasingly difficult, can AI companies that rose by 'borrowing power' still find a true path to independent innovation?" www.tmtpost.com/8048728.html

"The MATCH Act...would not just block sales of DUV machines to China, it would also restrict ASML’s provision of servicing, spare parts and software support for the hundreds of DUV machines already there." www.economist.com/china/2026/0...

Has China obtained the world’s most important machine?

Its Dutch manufacturer is fighting to rebut American claims

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"The substance of the new whole-of-nation system...is not merely about technologies and equipment where we are 'being squeezed,' but about 'getting there first'; not merely about 'shoring up weaknesses,' but also about 'forging strengths'.” cjrb.cjn.cn/h5/html5/202...

Chinese policymakers are considering ways to discourage researchers from submitting findings to foreign journals, amid concerns that academic publications could leak industrial and technological innovations. www.ft.com/content/64a8...

"The efforts to access Claude from China illustrate the continuing value of leading US AI products to Chinese engineers despite growing access restrictions and the increased competitiveness of domestic models." www.ft.com/content/ad03...

Anthropic moves to close loopholes that allow Chinese access to Claude

Engineers are still finding ways to use AI models despite stringent restrictions

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OpenAI suggests that "America’s leading AI developers allot 5 percent of their equity to a vehicle like the Alaska Permanent Fund, a sovereign fund that invests the state’s oil wealth into stocks and pays dividends to the state government and residents." www.ft.com/content/7c80...

OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake

Sam Altman’s start-up in early talks for a public ownership deal as political pressure rises

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Çin'in politik ekonomisi ile jeopolitiği arasındaki bağlantıya dair kapsamlı bir ufuk turu yaptık. youtu.be/qQXs1W_UOhA?...

ABD ve Avrupa, Çin'i Tehdit Olarak Görmeye Devam Ediyor! Doç. Dr. Burak Gürel Anlattı | Harici

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Çin'in politik ekonomisi ile jeopolitiği arasındaki bağlantıya dair kapsamlı bir ufuk turu yaptık. youtu.be/qQXs1W_UOhA?...

ABD ve Avrupa, Çin'i Tehdit Olarak Görmeye Devam Ediyor! Doç. Dr. Burak Gürel Anlattı | Harici

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"The decision to store Typhon hardware locally is...the clearest signal yet that a new land-based missile deployments era has arrived in the Indo-Pacific." www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06...

"Resolution 68, adopted by Vietnam’s Politburo in May 2025...explicitly elevates the private sector to the 'most important force' in the economy and sets a concrete target of developing at least 20 national champions by 2030." thediplomat.com/2026/06/viet...

Vietnam’s National Champions

Risks and opportunities for foreign investors.

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China turns the tables on "decoupling": "Apple is lobbying the Trump administration for clearance to buy memory chips from CXMT, a Chinese company that the Pentagon has put on a blacklist because of alleged connections to the People’s Liberation Army." www.ft.com/content/d72a...

Apple seeks to buy memory chips from blacklisted Chinese company

iPhone maker wants Trump administration to sign off on purchases to ease pressure from rising semiconductor prices

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Turkey's "dependence on foreign arms suppliers continues both in the form of platforms (the F-35 JSF and Type 214-class submarines) and sub-systems (engines for tanks, aircraft, and ships, or seekers for air-to-air missiles)." www.brookings.edu/articles/can...

Can Turkey’s defense industry deliver strategic autonomy for Ankara? | Brookings

Absent institutionalized defense industrial cooperation with the EU, the gap between Ankara’s strategic autonomy rhetoric and its defense industrial capabilities may widen.

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"The geopolitical goal is for China to 'challenge the West’s long-standing dominance over rule-setting' in digital technology, according to researchers at the China Academy of Macroeconomic Research and the Economic Information Network." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

In AI race vs. U.S., China eyes a come-from-behind victory

U.S. AI companies seem to be in the lead, but that could be short-lived as Chinese competitors offer cheaper products with more commercial appeal worldwide.

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Uluslararası duruma ve Türkiye'nin konumuna dair genel ve uzun vadeli bir çerçeve çizdik. Soruları için Nisa Sude Demirel'e teşekkür ederim. www.evrensel.net/haber/598914...

Ho-fung Hung'un güzel yazısını konuyla ilgilenenlere tavsiye ederim. harici.com.tr/dolarsizlasm... Benzer düşünüyorum: www.gazeteduvar.com.tr/amp/doc-dr-b... www.globalpanorama.org/2025/10/cini...

With the publication of Part 2, the full special session I edited for Asian Perspective, "China in the MENA Region: Within and Beyond the Belt and Road Initiative," is now complete and available. Part 1 muse.jhu.edu/issue/56443 Part 2 muse.jhu.edu/issue/56942

Hopkins Press@hopkinspress.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Asian Perspective 50.2, Spring 2026 tiny.one/yn6sj254 CONTRIBUTORS Burak Gürel Kadir Selamet Baran Şahinli Alperen Sen Deniz Tuzcu Derya Göçer Ceren Ergenç Dana Abu-Haltam Sheng Zhang Yalkun Uluyol Raj Verma Min-hyung Kim Meredith L. Weiss Teresa Wright Jeffrey Wasserstrom