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Southeast Asia’s data centre boom is built on borrowed time image

Southeast Asia’s data centre boom is built on borrowed time

2 October 2026

Southeast Asia’s enthusiastic embrace of data centre and AI investment carries social and environmental risks that regional governments are ill-prepared to manage, writes Debomita Dasgupta.

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Diplomacy

Asia (general)

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Will AI take Asian young people’s jobs?

30 September 2026

Governments across Asia must ensure young people have the tools they need to engage productively with AI, writes Lee Jong-Wha. This means updating education and training programs to not only teach AI skills and digital literacy but analytical reasoning, judgment, communication, creativity, and teamwork.

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Diplomacy

Asia (general)

Awakening Godzilla: Japan’s fading nuclear allergy and the perils of proliferation in the Indo-Pacific image

Awakening Godzilla: Japan’s fading nuclear allergy and the perils of proliferation in the Indo-Pacific

27 September 2026

The spectre of nuclear annihilation invoked by the story of the radio actively mutated Godzilla remains alive in Japanese society. But writes Stephen Nagy, the nuclear ambitions of Japan’s neighbours are forcing a reassessment of an old security taboo.

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Diplomacy

Japan

What Xi really wants from Trump image

What Xi really wants from Trump

24 September 2026

As US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, meet in Washington, American policymakers must not underestimate China’s ambitions, writes Steve Tsang. Under Xi, its foreign policy is focused on securing the support of the Global South while pursuing the long-term goal of seizing Taiwan and achieving global preeminence.

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Diplomacy

China