Chinese AI firm Moonshot released the Kimi K3 open-weight model on July 16, with 2.8 trillion parameters and a commitment to publish full weights by July 27, challenging U.S. AI labs' dominance. Analy…
A Small Wars Journal post on July 18, 2026, highlights national security and Korean news, including an article on an invisible campaign against U.S. AI data centers and the propaganda promise of AI, a…
A commentator claims China's open-source AI strategy, exemplified by Kimi K3, is an explicit CCP plan to crash the US stock market and economy by subsidizing cheap models that pressure US AI labs, pot…
China has built a life-size replica of a U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the Taklamakan Desert for anti-ship missile and hypersonic weapon testing, according to satellite images. The People…
Singapore's non-oil domestic exports rose 20.7% year on year in June, missing the 28.7% forecast, as a 105.1% surge in electronics shipments driven by AI demand was offset by a 2.9% decline in non-ele…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) announced an additional $100 billion investment in the United States, bringing its total U.S. investment to $265 billion, as the company posted a 77% surg…
South Korean prosecutors have filed the country's first criminal case involving AI-powered smart glasses used to cheat in a national qualification examination, indicting a man in his 40s on charges of…
Saudi Arabia bought a record $47.2 million of drones from Taiwan in June, the most in a month for any nation since data collection began in June 2023, according to Taiwan's Ministry of Finance. The pu…
China's June export data, expected to show 18.2% year-on-year growth, is increasingly driven by AI hardware shipments, with automated data processing equipment exports surging 60% in May versus 1.9% f…
The US spent a record $253 billion on imported semiconductors in 2025, representing 0.9% of GDP, driven by AI infrastructure buildout and raising concerns about technological dependence on Asian fabri…
ASUS gave a tour of its thermal testing lab in Taiwan, where it tests AI servers in environmental chambers that simulate years of thermal stress in compressed timeframes. The lab includes a walk-in ch…
Goldman Sachs Group has become Taiwan's largest foreign brokerage by trading volume in the first half of 2025, rising from 10th place, by expanding coverage of quant funds seeking AI exposure. The ban…
The IMF raised South Korea's 2026 GDP growth forecast by 0.7 percentage points to 2.6%, the largest upgrade among major economies, driven by semiconductor exports and AI hardware demand. Samsung Elect…
China launched a coast guard patrol east of Taiwan amid the Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis, escalating grey-zone tactics and raising market concerns over a potential military clash before 2027. The patro…
Taiwanese authorities detained workers from Super Micro in a probe into the illegal diversion of Nvidia's advanced AI chips to China, seizing 50 high-end servers. This marks Taiwan's first public enfo…
Asia's factories expanded for a seventh straight month in June, driven by surging demand for AI hardware such as chips and servers, according to PMI data. The growth offset headwinds from the Iran war…
AI-driven demand for chips and data-center equipment pushed manufacturing PMIs above 50 in China, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Malaysia in June 2026, according to Reuters. However, the…
Global semiconductor exports surged to their largest increase in nearly five decades, driven by demand for AI chips, with China becoming the top exporter and Taiwan a key supplier. Prediction markets …
BlackRock Investment Institute downgraded broad emerging-market equities from overweight to neutral, citing risks from AI supply chain concentration in Taiwan and South Korea. The firm still sees oppo…
China announced the initial scale deployment of embodied AI in complex automotive supply chains, challenging Western dominance in high-value manufacturing. The move aligns with Beijing's 'Made in Chin…