By Dr. Ali Alsaç Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing on May 13–15, 2026, should be read not merely as a diplomatic contact, but as a stage showcasing the 21st century’s technological balance of power. It is no coincidence that Trump was accompanied by top-level representatives from the technology, finance, payment systems, aviation, and semiconductor sectors, including Elon Musk, Tim Cook, ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer With a vision to be among the highest priorities of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China’s Digital Silk Road (DSR) has been slowly piercing Southeast Asia. From the underwater mosaic of cables and cloud hubs to e-commerce platforms and smart city technology, the DSR has been Beijing’s master plan for digital interconnectivity, standards, and influence ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer Transition to sustainable energy technologies is not just a technical matter for ASEAN countries—it is a political, structural, and economic reorientation of development itself. From solar photovoltaics to premium biofuels, from geothermal power plants to smart grids, the region’s capacity to incorporate clean technologies within its fold will determine if it can develop energy demand sky-high ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer In a world in which geopolitics between states too-often play out in the headlines rather than in hard reality, the China-Australia relationship has become a case study in how frenzied reporting on national security can drown out sensible diplomacy. There exists a healthy and business-minded partnership between the two, but of late, it has been characterized ...
By Xu Yawen, from Beijing / China “A policy that causes America to lose half of the world’s AI developers is not beneficial long term, it hurts us more.” These remarks by Jensen Huang the CEO of Nvidia, at the company’s first developer conference in Washington, have garnered widespread attention in the global tech industry. Nvidia, once held 95% of ...
By Ljubodrag Simonović – Belgrade, Serbia In order to understand the nature of Tesla’s inventions and the myth surrounding him, one must consider the social conditions in the United States at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, during which Tesla lived and worked. This was a time of intense industrialization and the development of ...
BY BEYHAN YILDIRIM / BERLIN Chinese tech companies like Huawei, the inventor of 5G technology which has distinguished itself by outcompeting Western companies, have helped the government to take advantage of smartphones, user databases and GPS systems in the fight against the coronavirus. Now, Germany is looking at the technology that China used in its fight against the virus to ...