Mathieu Duchatel, Institut Montaigne
Last June, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) released its Strategy for Semiconductors and the Digital Industry. According to METI, semiconductors are for the digital revolution not what oil was in the 1970s or the steam engine during the industrial revolution - instead they are the "rice of the industry, essential and irreplaceable to all industries" (産業に必要不可欠な産業のコメ). The metaphor combines...
Sholto Byrnes, The National
think US President Joe Biden, or at least those happy warriors in his orbit who still believe that "democracy" and "elections" are the answer to everything, need to meet a Malaysian friend of mine whom I am going to call "Nur". That's because recent events in Tunisia and Libya will have
Andrew Bacevich, TomDispatch
"The thirty-year interregnum of U.S. global hegemony," writes David Bromwich in the journal Raritan, "has been exposed as a fraud, a decoy, a cheat, [and] a sell." Today, he continues, "the armies of the cheated are struggling to find the word for something that happened and happened wrong."
Tom Mitchell & Thomas Hale, FT
New restrictions reflect Beijing's desire to maintain social control, but they also provide a window on to the strains of urban life
Nicholas Danforth, Al Monitor
Turkey's second president Ismet Inonu surprised the world by stepping down in 1950. Could Erdogan do the same after the 2023 elections?
International Crisis Group
Iran has a new president, consolidating the hardliners' control over the centres of power. What will he do about the country's numerous crises? One answer is clear: the 2015 nuclear deal's fate remains the most pressing issue for Tehran and its foreign interlocutors.
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Christian Whiton, National Interest
Taiwan can hold out, given it has the both the political will and military means to fight for its freedom.
June Park, East Asia Forum
The United States is home to ‘state-of-the-art' integrated device manufacturers and fabless chip firms, but the global chip shortage during COVID-19 has revealed weaknesses in US chip manufacturing capacities at foundries. The Biden administration's assessment of global semiconductor supply chains acknowledges that while the United States leads in system-on-chip designs, it severely lacks foundries to boost chip production in scale to mitigate...
