Kapsamlı ve keyifli bir söyleşi oldu. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k-h...

KUASIA direktörü Burak Gürel'in Çin'in yüksek teknoloji odaklı sanayi politikasını inceleyen yazısı, TMMOB Makina Mühendisleri Odası'nın “Sanayi Kongresine Giderken: Ar-Ge ve Yatırım Teşvik Süreçleri” başlıklı kitabında yayınlandı. www.mmo.org.tr/sites/defaul...

"According to the China Photovoltaic Industry Association (中国光伏行业协会), 39 of the 121 listed PV companies reported net losses last year." www.guancha.cn/politics/202...

“Çin'in Yüksek Teknoloji Odaklı Sanayi Politikası: Yeni Tip Ulusal Seferberlik Sistemi” başlıklı yazım, TMMOB Makina Mühendisleri Odası'nın “Sanayi Kongresine Giderken: Ar-Ge ve Yatırım Teşvik Süreçleri” başlıklı kitabında yayımlandı. www.mmo.org.tr/sites/defaul...

Part I of the special session I guest-edited for Asian Perspective, “China in the MENA Region,” is now published. Grateful to contributors and to Editor-in-Chief Ho-fung Hung. Pleased it coincides with the journal’s 50th anniversary. Part II forthcoming.

Excellent report 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/t...

"To gauge the true vitality of China’s growth model, analysts should focus on observable metrics such as labor productivity and the marginal product of capital rather than what Kroeber calls 'the conceptual swamp' of TFP." asiasociety.org/policy-insti...

The first part of the special session of Asian Perspective, “China in the MENA Region: Within and Beyond the Belt and Road Initiative,” guest-edited by KUASIA Director Burak Gürel, has been published. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56443

Papers in the first part of the special session 👇 muse.jhu.edu/issue/56443

Part I of the special session I guest-edited for Asian Perspective, “China in the MENA Region,” is now published. Grateful to contributors and to Editor-in-Chief Ho-fung Hung. Pleased it coincides with the journal’s 50th anniversary. Part II forthcoming. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56443

"Chinese military spending has shrunk considerably as a percent of total government spending." chinapower.csis.org/military-spe...

Superb piece on Chinese state capitalism 👇 www.foreignaffairs.com/china/chinas...

Daniel Cunha’s review of Melissa Teixeira’s “A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal,” written as the final assignment for my “Historical Sociology” graduate seminar, has been published in the E-Journal of Portuguese History. brill.com/view/journal...

"Chinese researchers are developing corn with higher protein that could replace significant amounts of soybean imports [...] By 2030, China aims to cut the amount of soymeal in animal feed to just 10%." www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/c...

Takaichi pledged increased government spending and a two-year suspension of the consumption tax on food. www.ft.com/content/0456... Sanae Takaichi’s LDP wins supermajority in Japan election

No hint of compromise from Moscow ahead of Abu Dhabi talks. Russian gov'nt paper: “We’ll continue strikes till Kyiv signs peace deal on our terms.” Other papers on the economy: “India cuts Russian oil imports 3 ½ times,” “systemic banking crisis”, “car sales down.” #ReadingRussia

If these reports are confirmed (no confirmation yet) and India stops buying Russian oil, it could be the Trump administration’s biggest foreign policy win and further expose the largely symbolic nature of “BRICS”-style Global South unity. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

The crux of the matter is whether Xi will embark on the highly risky venture of opening the capital account and making the RMB fully convertible. ft.com/content/c948b9… Xi Jinping calls for China’s renminbi to attain global reserve currency status

Zhang Junni’s piece on China’s demographic crisis is well worth reading. www.sinification.org/p/chinas-dem...

State intervention helps produce large cohorts of science and technology talent in China. www.ft.com/content/68f6... China’s genius plan to win the AI race is already paying off

"Set up in the 1990s to invest excess revenues from Norway’s oil and gas industry, the fund is currently an investor in more than 7,000 companies across 60 countries." www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/n...

"As China continues to move up the technology ladder, Beijing is going to seek to capitalise on its cutting-edge innovations while protecting its hard-won technological edge, just as the west has tried to do." www.ft.com/content/7851...

"This is not about helping mature companies access growth capital. This is about channeling public market money into a sector that private capital alone would not build at the required scale and speed." open.substack.com/pub/hellochi...

Türkiye'deki BYD yatırımının seyrini güzel özetleyen bu yazıyı tavsiye ederim: ekopolitik.org.tr/hayalle-gerc... Daha geniş bir bağlama yerleştirmek için bkz. 👇 www.burakgurel.com/uploads/1/2/... + link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"The most shocking allegation disclosed during the closed-door briefing, the people said, was that Zhang had leaked core technical data on China’s nuclear weapons to the U.S." www.wsj.com/world/china/...

"Michael Tam, chief brand officer at Shenzhen-based UBTech, which has partnerships with carmaker BYD and Apple contractor Foxconn, said its Walker S2 robots were 30 to 50 percent as productive as humans and only in certain tasks such as stacking boxes and quality control." www.ft.com/content/0f83...

"More than 50 senior military officers and defense-industry executives have been placed under investigation or removed from office in the past 2½ years." www.wsj.com/world/china/...

"Anglophone tendency to privilege the urban in its reading of Lefebvre's work misses both his intention of approaching urban and rural sociology together and of seeing the process of transformation at stake in the production and organization of state space." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

"If future U.S. administrations keep pushing for large-scale relocation, Taiwan losing its exclusive advantage becomes less a question of if and more a question of when." www.cnbc.com/2026/01/19/u...

"Rather than preparing for a decisive handover or a power grab, the system is experimenting with collective governance as a way to postpone and contain succession conflicts under conditions of sustained external and internal pressure." www.irananalytica.org/p/the-myth-o...

"Gross capital formation, a measure of investment used to calculate GDP, contributed 15% to growth in 2025, the lowest share since 1997." www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

"Policymakers are betting that it can alleviate some of the impact of the ageing workforce by replacing people with robots. China far outstrips the rest of the world in such automation, with around 280,000 new industrial robots every year." www.ft.com/content/a294...

"Beijing has targeted annual GDP growth of around 5% in recent years. For China to sustain that pace, new industries would need to expand sevenfold over the next five years to generate the roughly 2 percentage points of annual investment growth required." www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/c...

"After decades of engineering workarounds and using shadowy flows of cash to keep the country’s battered economy functioning, Tehran had reached a dead end, with no tools to address a deepening economic crisis or meet the needs of an increasingly desperate population." www.wsj.com/world/middle...

"The country’s decades-long push to nationalize its internet infrastructure – accelerated by intensifying international sanctions – has given the state far greater capacity to censor, throttle and control online activity." edition.cnn.com/2026/01/13/m...

Bilgiye dayalı, derli toplu ve net bir anlatım. Meraklısına tavsiye ederim. youtu.be/Oobz-Jv-Vd4?...

"With regulatory supply chain controls, trade policies are moving toward trading blocs at best, deglobalization...at worst." www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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...