Submarines, Summits And The Great Rearmament: How Canada’s Choice Signals A New Security Era
Canada picked Germany's TKMS over Korea's Hanwha as NATO leaders gather in Ankara to spend 5% of GDP. Inside the...
July 7, 2026Section
Asia Tech & Semiconductors
Asia is where the world’s semiconductors, electronics and AI hardware are made – Taiwan, Korea, Japan and China at the center. The Rio Times tracks the chip race, the tech giants and the export controls that now double as foreign policy, with an eye on how the AI and hardware boom reaches Latin American markets.
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When The Best News Becomes The Bad News: Asia’s Chip Scare And The Global AI Reckoning
Samsung posted its best-ever profit and its shares still fell nearly 7%. Why the memory-chip scare is a global AI-bubble...
July 7, 2026
A Missile, a Pact and the Ocean Where Great Powers Now Collide
China fired a submarine missile into the Pacific as Australia and Fiji sealed a defence pact. What the new ocean...
July 6, 2026
Asia Intelligence Brief
Asia Intelligence Brief — Asia woke tense and watchful on Monday, from a Chinese missile arcing into the Pacific to...
July 6, 2026
One Tournament, Four Continents: How A World Cup Became The Planet’s Shared Heartbeat
From Cape Verde's near-miracle to Germany's collapse and America's unlikely joy, one World Cup has become the emotional weather of...
July 4, 2026
The Great Memory Gamble: How One Tiny Chip Now Steers The World Economy
From Hiroshima to Seoul to Boise, the world is pouring trillions into AI memory chips. What the great HBM gamble...
July 4, 2026
Washington Freezes the North American Trade Pact — and the Americas Feel It
Washington declined to renew the USMCA on its sixth anniversary, opening a decade of annual reviews. Why it splits Mexico...
July 3, 2026
The Day Half the World’s Wealth Rode on One AI Bet
A Meta cloud plan triggered a global memory-chip rout from Seoul to Wall Street. Why Asia's AI boom is now...
July 3, 2026
One Short Seller, A Global Chip Tremor – And What It Means For Latin America
Michael Burry's short bet against Nvidia and chips triggered a Seoul circuit breaker and a global tremor. What the AI...
July 3, 2026