US–China Technology Competition
จีน VS สหรัฐฯ: สงครามชิงอำนาจดิจิทัลในเอเชีย
Summary
The Economist’s reporting shows both powers contesting control of Asia’s digital infrastructure: data centres, submarine cables and 5G.
Nusajaya Tech Park in Malaysia is a concrete instance of the contest reaching actual ground.
The talk separates each side’s strategy and asks which way Asian countries will go.
Key points
Infrastructure is what gets held longest
Cables and data centres last thirty years — longer than any government.
Choosing a supplier is choosing a side by default
Once a system is interoperable with one bloc, changing your mind later is very expensive.
Malaysia became a junction without planning to
Geography and readiness made it ground both sides want.
Thailand does not appear in this contest
Absence from reporting at that level is itself a piece of information.