If this remains true after the dust settles, it should be recorded as the most important news story of 2025, and possibly of the past decade, with implications for many years to come. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

"If the state sector had not played the crucial stabilizing role for the Chinese economy, net capital formation would have declined by a much larger amount." journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Makina Mühendisleri Odası İzmir Şubesi’nin Kasım ayındaki "Sanayi Kongresi’ne Giderken" etkinliğinde ve ODTÜ’de Korkut Boratav’ın onuruna yapılan sempozyumda dün sunduğum çalışmanın çok kısa bir özeti bu bültende yayımlandı. bulten.mmoizmir.org/bultenler/42...

China’s share of where top AI researchers work grew from 11% in 2019 to 28% in 2022. Its share of where these researchers took their undergraduate degrees from also rose from 29% to 47% over the same period. carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

China’s scientific foundations for controlling rare earth supply were laid in the Mao era. Reform era inter-sectoral conflicts (public vs. private & central vs. local) were ultimately settled in the Xi era in favor of a central government–led state capitalism. academic.oup.com/cjip/article...

"The INSS study traced the expansion of North Korea’s AI research infrastructure to the 2010s, when Kim Il Sung University’s Department of Computer Science and Kim Chaek University of Technology established AI laboratories." www.nknews.org/2025/11/nort...

KUASIA Administrative Assistant Merve Yahşi attended the “Kyushu University Forum: KYUDAI NOW ANKARA,” co-hosted by Kyushu University Institute for Asian and Oceanian Studies and J-MENA. We extend our appreciation to the organizers for facilitating meaningful academic exchange.

Zhan’s paper successfully challenges the widely held assumption that land expropriation inevitably impoverishes Chinese villagers. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Chang’s argument (entirely correct, in my view) ultimately hinges on the absence of effective disciplinary planning in India, a dynamic that Chibber explains well in "Locked in Place." frontline.thehindu.com/interviews/i... press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

While Çelik’s paper centers on how Industrial Vocational High School students internalize unstable employment prospects as a personal “failure,” it also offers food for thought on the micro foundations of Turkey’s lack of a coherent industrial policy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

KUASIA continues to publish expert blogs on various aspects of Asian studies. A new blog post by R. Krishnaswamy, Associate Professor at O.P. Jindal Global University (Haryana, India), titled "Liberal Arts in India," is now available on our website. kuasia.ku.edu.tr/liberal-arts...

"The current slowdown [of the Russian economy] could easily spark a technical recession. But this does not imply a crisis that would require urgent government intervention, rather it would be a return to a slower overall growth trajectory via a downturn." open.substack.com/pub/thebelli...

AidData Lab’s new dataset and report show that after “Made in China 2025” launched, China’s cross-border M&A lending shifted sharply: from 2015 to 2023, funding to weak-screening jurisdictions rose from 64% to 75%, while support for 'sensitive' sectors surged from 46% to 88%.

"21. yüzyıl her şeyden önce Büyük Depresyon yüzyılıdır. Bu Büyük Depresyon muhtemelen 1930’lu yılların kötü şöhretli depresyonundan bile daha ağır geçecektir." gercekgazetesi1.net/ekonomi/kapi...

We are recruiting for two positions: a full-time faculty position (any rank) and a full-time Instructor position. jobs.ku.edu.tr/open_positio... + jobs.ku.edu.tr/open_positio...

"Hazelnut is the lamb of nuts — high quality, with a sophisticated aroma. But Turkey did not succeed in building a brand. It always acted as a subcontractor for Europe." on.ft.com/3JxErGM Nutella maker in hazelnut stand-off with Turkish dealers

KUASIA direktörü Burak Gürel'in katkıda bulunduğu "Çin’in Hegemon Devlet Olma Potansiyeli" konulu "Panorama Soruyor" bölümü yayımlandı. www.globalpanorama.org/2025/10/cini...

"Çin yeni hegemon olur mu?" sorusunu Global Panorama'da yanıtladım. www.globalpanorama.org/2025/10/cini...

China "has some of the lowest prices for drugs in the world. Nearly all of the success of these companies — and their booming stock prices — hinges on their ability to succeed in the US." on.ft.com/3JwG9s3

Zhu Jianmin: "To overcome such technological challenges...the government, market, and society must be organically integrated—scientifically coordinated, focusing resources, optimizing mechanisms, and advancing collaborative innovation." epaper.tianjinwe.com/tjrb/html/20...

"The West has been late to the game. In April 2020, amid pandemic lockdowns, Xi declared it was Beijing’s strategy to 'tighten international production chains’ dependence on China'." on.ft.com/3LbX1EY

During the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) period, "over 80% of the participants in national key R&D programs were under the age of 45, and 43.3% served as project leaders." paper.people.com.cn/rmrb/pc/cont...

"In 2024, Eagle Semiconductor took the lead in achieving mass production and supply of single-wavelength 100G VCSEL chips, becoming the first domestic company to break this technological barrier and end the long-term monopoly held by American firms." cj.sina.cn/article/norm...

"Türkiye’nin yüksek teknolojili ürünlerdeki açık sorununun esasen 'Çin kaynaklı' olmaktan ziyade, Türkiye’nin küresel sanayi hiyerarşisindeki yarı-çevre konumuna işaret etmektedir." www.birgun.net/makale/turki...

"Meanwhile, China faces an international environment of 'strong winds and rough waves'...Only by embedding technological self-reliance and self-strengthening into the fabric of industrial development can we firmly grasp the initiative in global competition." www.stdaily.com/web/2025-10/...

"The red canon and Silicon Valley canon never contradict — they coexist seamlessly within the same enterprise. This dual fluency...represents a uniquely Chinese form of corporate bilingualism. asteriskmag.com/issues/12-bo...

Tarım Ekonomisi Derneği'nin etkinliğinde Journal of Peasant Studies’in tarihini ve yayın politikasını konuşacağız. Etkinliğin JPS’in Küresel Güney’de tarımın ve kırsalın dönüşümü üzerine çalışan araştırmacıları desteklemeye yönelik uzun soluklu çabalarına mütevazı bir katkı sunmasını umuyorum.

"Data from the 2025 list of China’s Top 500 manufacturing enterprises show that their R&D intensity [R&D spending as a share of revenue] reached 2.45%, an increase of 0.03 percentage points compared with the previous year." www.eet-china.com/news/2025092...

"Nexperia's core design and wafer manufacturing have always been in Europe...It is necessary to simultaneously introduce the design and manufacturing links into China, which involves complex technology transfer, and European factories are not likely to cooperate." finance.sina.com.cn/stock/roll/2...

"Designing and manufacturing a modern combat aircraft calls for multi-domain, wide-spectrum, technological expertise, and there are just six nations in this list...This has been elusive in the Indian context." www.thequint.com/opinion/lca-...

"Policymakers face a dilemma: cut production drastically, which risks a collapse in growth, or move too slowly and risk letting the problem fester. China so far is taking a gradual, supply-side approach." www.wsj.com/world/china/...

"China’s technological rise is impressive and enormously wasteful. Its industrial policy has forged some highly productive technological titans, and countless zombies." on.ft.com/43o5afJ For more on this issue, I recommend: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

1. The analysis of Jiang Xiaojun, co-founder of Xinlü Intelligent, a Chinese firm providing information services to semiconductor firms, is insightful for evaluating the potential significance of U.S. software export restrictions on China. + www.guancha.cn/industry-sci...

Wingtech’s 2020 acquisition of Nexperia for over 33 billion RMB (dubbed “a snake swallowing an elephant”) transformed the company from a phone assembler into an Integrated Device Manufacturer with core semiconductor assets. finance.sina.cn/tech/2025-10...

"This is state capitalism and it relies on industrial policy, so a five-year plan is still useful." on.ft.com/4nW4oim Why China still loves its five-year plans

"In the past, software platforms that integrated the IT and OT layers were often monopolized by foreign companies. The new product released by Inovance Technology is one of the few domestic software platforms capable of fully integrating the IT and OT layers." www.21jingji.com/article/2025...

Peak deglobalization www.wsj.com/tech/how-u-s...

"For years, the U.S. has used its chokehold on advanced semiconductors to constrain the tech ambitions of a Chinese leadership...Now, Beijing is crafting a strategy that looks uncannily familiar to the U.S. playbook, almost page for page." wsjchina.cmail19.com/t/d-e-gwvdl-...

Deglobalization par excellence on.ft.com/4obhY0Q

The history of China’s rare-earth processing industry vividly illustrates uneven and combined development: the fusion of appropriated U.S. scientific knowledge with Mao-era state-directed research under the whip of external necessity, epitomized by Xu's career. asiatimes.com/2025/10/chin...

"President Trump said Friday he would hit China with a 100% additional tariff and impose new export controls on critical software products after Beijing placed new restrictions on the export of rare-earth minerals." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

"Qualcomm relies heavily on China for its business and, among American companies, is one of the most exposed to China. Nearly half its revenue came from China in fiscal 2024, the latest full year for which data is available." www.wsj.com/tech/china-g...

"The U.S. and other countries are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into data centers, making AI a key economic engine. China gaining control of the technology would potentially let it catch up in the AI race and upend the world order." www.wsj.com/world/china/...

"By consuming more than half the world’s new robots, by supporting domestic firms like Siasun, Estun, Efort, JAKA, Dobot, and Elite, and by acquiring global names like KUKA, China reshaped the robotics landscape." technicalyspeaking.substack.com/p/how-china-...

"The restrictions announced on Thursday by China’s commerce ministry will for the first time create a Chinese version of the US foreign direct product rule, a measure Washington has used to block semiconductor-related exports to China from third countries." on.ft.com/3IEENLz

"Nearly 80% of CATL’s overseas investment has been in Europe. The company has pumped $12.3 billion into three production hubs, according to the September analysis....CATL’s advance into Europe is a pre-emptive move in case exporting to the EU becomes harder." www.caixinglobal.com/2025-10-07/c...

"Unlike the West’s gig economy, which is almost entirely focused on services, roughly 40m of the make-or-break workers are paid by the day or week to work in factories. In China’s largest manufacturing complexes they can at times make up 80% of the workforce." www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Kapitalist bir çerçevede dahi olsa kalkınmacılık ile uzaktan yakından alakaları yok. Bunun uzun vadede yaratacağı ekonomik tahribat çok büyük olacak.

"AI pioneer Marvin Minsky told Life magazine that true AGI was three to eight years away—in 1970. Less widely known is that the magazine canvassed skeptics who cautioned that AGI was more likely to take 15 years. It’s always been the technology of the future." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-i...