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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Jul- 2026 -17 JulyTech & AI
China’s helium ban just squeezed the world’s chip fabs
Beijing's export freeze on July 10 follows Qatar's damaged Ras Laffan hub, cutting global supply by over five million cubic metres monthly and pushing spot prices above $100 per litre…
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17 JulyCapital
China’s biggest airlines just lost $1.33 billion in one quarter
State backing and Russian airspace advantages could not shield China Southern, Air China, and China Eastern from a fuel-price shock that erased their first-quarter gains in just 90 days.
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16 JulyTech & AI
Asia’s AI agents are ransomware now. Security hasn’t caught up.
On July 1, Sysdig disclosed JADEPUFFER, the first autonomous AI ransomware attack, which encrypted 1,342 configuration records and destroyed the decryption key, while 44% of Asia-Pacific companies hit by ransomware…
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16 JulySociety
Hong Kong’s independent booksellers are disappearing into the law
Five arrests on July 15 mark the third bookstore raid this year under Article 23, closing the last spaces where Hong Kong readers could access banned ideas.
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15 JulyCapital
China’s empty tower finally rises as Beijing abandons property
After 18 years stalled, the Goldin Finance 117 in Tianjin resumed construction via court liquidation, signalling Beijing's shift away from propping up real estate toward manufacturing and exports.
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15 JulyTech & AI
Nvidia just cut half its Asian customers off the GPU list
The Financial Times reported July 14 that Nvidia removed more than half its previously approved Asian customers after intensified compliance screening, threatening Southeast Asia's neo-cloud providers that depend on advanced…
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15 JulyCapital
Half of Asia’s shippers just fired their logistics provider
A Dimerco survey of 180 Asia-Pacific shippers finds 42% switched providers in the past year, driven by freight rates still 276% above pre-crisis levels and monthly delays now treated as…
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14 JulyTech & AI
China’s chipmaker tests whether its stock market can fund semiconductor independence
ChangXin Memory Technologies seeks 29.5 billion yuan on July 16, the biggest A-share IPO this year, as domestic investors face a choice between tech euphoria and market fragility.
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12 JulySociety
Thailand’s surrogate mothers face a decade-long legal limbo
A 2015 ban on commercial surrogacy remains unenforced as Chinese demand and Thai economic need quietly sustain a grey market the law cannot erase.
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12 JulyScience
A former Pentagon official claims secret moon photos exist. NASA says they don’t.
Luis Elizondo asserted on a podcast that the U.S. government holds photographs of monolithic lunar structures, but provided no images, timeline, or independent verification despite NASA's complete 0.5-meter-resolution mapping showing…
