Asia Intelligence Brief August 14, 2026: An Invitation To Challenge
Asia Intelligence Brief for August 14: the yen has given back half the gains from a joint intervention and traders...
August 14, 2026Asia 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.
Asia Intelligence Brief for August 14: the yen has given back half the gains from a joint intervention and traders...
August 14, 2026
Asia Intelligence Brief for August 13: Japanese producer prices rose 7.2% while consumer prices sit near 1.7%, and the yen...
August 13, 2026
Malaysia is rebuilding its grid for data centers funded by Chinese capital, even while phasing out coal, and Latin America...
August 13, 2026
Asia Intelligence Brief for August 12: Chinese firms are relocating into ASEAN rather than across oceans, and a BRICS trade...
August 12, 2026
Asia Intelligence Brief for August 11: China is rebuilding its soybean relationship with Washington while Brazil holds 73.6% of its...
August 11, 2026
A Chinese Long March 7A rocket suffered a flight anomaly and was destroyed about 85 seconds after liftoff from Wenchang...
August 11, 2026
Asia Intelligence Brief for August 10: Southeast Asia is bidding for the same chip capital as Mexico and Brazil, China...
August 10, 2026
Asia Intelligence Brief August 8: a Saudi-Turkey-Pakistan defence pact, Typhoon Dolphin closing Chinese ports, and SK Hynix betting US$38 billion...
August 8, 2026
Asia Intelligence Brief for August 7: Korea's rally died in nine minutes on an Nvidia specification review, China's exports jumped...
August 7, 2026