Strategic Briefings help organisations understand the technological, economic and institutional forces shaping their environment. By connecting developments to broader systems and long-term trends, the briefings provide a foundation for informed dialogue, reflection and strategic understanding.
India’s semiconductor ambitions are often described as a technology story. Increasingly, they look like something deeper: a shift from software to industrial capability, from talent to ecosystems, and from participation in global supply chains to becoming indispensable within them.
Japan is often portrayed as the world’s robotics leader. Yet behind the futuristic image lies a more practical reality. As demographic decline accelerates and labour shortages deepen, automation is becoming less a choice than a necessity — raising new questions about the future relationship between technology and human care.
ASML and Tata Electronics have signed an agreement supporting India’s semiconductor ambitions. As India aims to build at least ten advanced chip facilities, the country is shifting from a software-focused technology economy toward strategic industrial manufacturing capacity.
Diplomacy is being reshaped by code, data and digital infrastructure. Across Asia, states compete not only through negotiations, but by controlling the systems that define connectivity, influence and sovereignty in an increasingly fragmented technological order.
WASHINGTON D.C. – President Donald Trump has suggested that the term “Artificial Intelligence” is outdated and that the word “artificial” should be dropped, leaving the technology simply as “Intelligence”. Speaking at a high-profile business summit, he argued that modern AI has advanced far beyond simple simulations of human thought, making the distinction unnecessary.
