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Tuesday 18 August 2026
Column: Strategic resilience in precious metal refining: insights from Qiankun Gold, Silver

Amid global supply chain restructuring and geopolitical rivalry, precious metals are no longer merely financial hedging tools but have...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
Column: AI jailbreak incident highlights fresh demand for supply-chain resilience
In July, an OpenAI AI agent model successfully bypassed safety restrictions during internal testing and even launched an automated cyberattack against Hugging Face, the world's largest...
Tuesday 11 August 2026
Column: The everyday philosophy of supply chain resilience
When people talk about responding to supply chain shocks, the instinct is often to stockpile inventory or build backup production lines. However, after visiting Inner Mongolia Shuangjie...
Monday 10 August 2026
Column: Greening the Gobi Desert—how China built Inner Mongolia's wind power ecosystem

Driven by global net-zero commitments and China's "dual carbon" goals of peaking carbon emissions before achieving carbon neutrality,...

Monday 3 August 2026
Column: AI agents are advancing rapidly, but the automation map remains smaller than expected

Token prices are falling while overall AI usage continues to surge — a trend this column examined in March 2026 and one that...

Wednesday 29 July 2026
Column: Taiwan suppliers' path into US Space Force supply chain
As the debate over the US fiscal 2027 defense spending plan to dismantle the Space Development Agency (SDA) continues, the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture's (PWSA) transport...
Monday 27 July 2026
Column: Enterprise AI asset is learning loops, not models

For the past two decades, enterprise information governance has focused on protecting data through classification, encryption, backups,...

Saturday 18 July 2026
Column: South Korea's semiconductor strategy faces foresight and structural gaps
South Korea's technology policies—including the two semiconductor strategies discussed previously and the broader K-Moonshot initiative introduced more recently—have been...
Thursday 16 July 2026
Column: From K-Semiconductor to AI superpower —How South Korea is taking its next chip leap

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung unveiled the country's Three Mega Projects for AI and Semiconductors in late June 2026, an ambitious...

Tuesday 14 July 2026
Column: Digital AI and Physical AI follow the same growth logic
At a humanoid robotics summit in Tokyo in May 2026, I saw a consulting firm's global labor automation map for Physical AI. After returning, I recreated the same map using the firm's...
Wednesday 24 June 2026
Column: Spain's Multiverse Computing builds case for on-device AI to curb soaring cloud costs

As generative AI moves from pilot projects to large-scale deployment in 2026, enterprises are facing a growing problem: AI bill anx...

Wednesday 24 June 2026
Column: Physical AI commercialization's safety gap

The race to commercialize physical AI and autonomous robots is running into a fundamental challenge: existing robot safety frameworks...

Monday 22 June 2026
Column: Physical AI shifts from feature robots to smart robots
Over the past decade, annual venture capital invested in physical AI and robotics startups has surged from a few hundred million US dollars to nearly US$25 billion, more than a 10x...
Wednesday 10 June 2026
Column: Robotics' razor's edge is finally cutting into the real world
In early June in Vienna, a robotics startup used its keynote at ICRA 2026 — the International Conference on Robotics and Automation — to show a robotic arm slowly and precisely...
Wednesday 10 June 2026
Column: Computex 2026 shows Taiwan rewriting its role — from building AI to designing it
Computex Taipei 2026, held from June 2 to 5 under the theme "AI Together," drew more than 1,500 exhibitors from 33 countries and set a new record in scale. The show underscored a new...