China
The latest on trade decisions, technology restrictions, military posture — none of it stays contained to China for long, and every neighbor’s strategy has to account for it.
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Jun- 2026 -28 JunePower
Myanmar’s scam compounds aren’t being dismantled. They’re moving.
After Myanmar's military raided KK Park in late 2025, satellite imagery showed new construction breaking ground nearby, suggesting the underlying network of Chinese-led syndicates and militia protectors survived intact.
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27 JuneTech & AI
US AI ban just handed Asia a reason to build its own models
Sakana AI's Fugu and China's 360 launched rival systems within two weeks of Anthropic's export cutoff, signaling that frontier AI is fragmenting along geopolitical lines.
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27 JuneTech & AI
China’s AI microdramas are already half the top shows
Forty to fifty percent of China's highest-ranked short dramas are now AI-generated or AI-assisted, according to Media Partners Asia, reshaping how platforms compete through volume rather than budget.
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27 JunePower
America’s Southeast Asia problem has a Northeast Asia solution
When the US pools resources with Japan, South Korea, and Australia, their combined trade share with ASEAN (25.9%) exceeds China's (19%), but only if four democracies can act as one…
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26 JuneEarth
China’s recovering elephant herds are walking into farmland. Drones see them coming.
Thermal cameras mounted on hourly drone flights detected a 17-elephant herd 95% of the time near midnight, offering a tested method for anticipating conflict as Yunnan's population doubled since the…
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26 JuneEarth
The Philippines is building renewable power on Chinese supply chains
With 98% of solar imports from China and residential rates at $0.22 per kilowatt-hour, Manila is trading fuel dependence for manufacturing dependence.
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26 JuneEarth
India’s green economy is booming. Its coal consumption keeps rising.
India generated $110 billion in green revenue in 2025 at a 20% annual growth rate, but coal still powers 73% of its electricity and consumption reached 1.06 billion tonnes.
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25 JuneScience
East Asia’s biotech autonomy is already making drugs slower and costlier
The COINS Act, introduced June 21, 2026, will screen US biotech investments in China, forcing Western drugmakers to duplicate trials and manufacturing across rival blocs—a tax that eventually lands on…
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25 JunePower
Asia’s defense factories are now supplying the West
Military spending across Asia reached $573 billion in 2025 as South Korea and Japan shifted from buyers to builders, filling Western production gaps drained by Ukraine and Middle East operations.
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25 JuneCapital
Southeast Asia is locking itself into Chinese EVs
Laos banned petrol car imports through 2026, while Thailand and the Philippines cut tariffs to zero, creating a policy-built market that Chinese manufacturers are flooding with 448,000 vehicles monthly.
