After a week reacting in unison to one chip shock, Asia turned inward on Thursday. China published a sweeping energy plan and recast itself as the world’s opportunity, while Japan stood firm over a citizen held in China.
Indonesia rewrote its own trade rules, India and Korea deepened a bloc of their own, and a global index again kept Seoul waiting. Each power, in its own way, was setting its own terms rather than taking another’s.
Today’s Asia Intelligence Brief covers the region’s economy, politics, and markets. We pulled it together from major Asian outlets in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Hindi, Bahasa Indonesia, and English.
China — The Plan And The Pitch
A Five-Year Blueprint
