Archive - Business/Economy of Asia Sentinel

Danantara’s Gold Mine Gambit Stalls

Resource nationalism or regulatory overreach?

Feb 23

China Still Borrows From the West For Highest Tech

Overreliance on reverse engineering still a problem

Feb 19

Asia’s Energy Transition Grows But ‘Dirty/Risky’ Countries Left Out

Capital is clustering, not spreading

Feb 11

Kazakh-US Oil Collaboration Deepens

Ukrainian attacks on Kazakhstan’s primary oil export route intensify, changing equation

Feb 6

FOMO or TACO, India-US Trade Deal Back On

…If some of the murkier points can be worked out, that is

Feb 5

Taiwan’s Rare Earths Security Challenge

Sourcing ultimately depends on Chinese-refined feedstock

Feb 3

EU–India Trade Deal Echoes Beyond Brussels

The end of single-country dependence

Feb 2

January 2026

Gold and ‘Irrational Exuberance’

Up she goes, where she stops, nobody knows

Jan 29 • Philip Bowring

From Pax Silica to Hypergravity in Kazakhstan

Central Asia’s place in the new technological era

Jan 24

Canada’s TMX Pipeline Hedge

China Outreach is about energy math, not just politics

Jan 22

Can China Win Round Two of the Trade War?

China won round one

Jan 22

The WTO in Eclipse

Savaged by Donald Trump as King of Beasts

Jan 20 • Philip Bowring

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