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Navigating the AI chip divide: Malaysia’s strategic dilemma in a fractured tech order

Jalal Nori, Abdulwahed (2025) Navigating the AI chip divide: Malaysia’s strategic dilemma in a fractured tech order. China Daily Hong Kong, 1st August 2025.

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Abstract

The United States’ recent move to restrict the export of advanced AI chips to Malaysia and Thailand is far more than a targeted regulatory action. It is a calculated gesture in a broader geopolitical strategy that seeks to redraw the global technological landscape. The draft rule, proposed by the US Commerce Department, must be read not merely as a measure against illicit semiconductor smuggling, but as part of a wider effort to construct a new architecture of digital control—where supply chains are weaponized, technological ecosystems are bifurcated, and innovation itself is deployed as a tool of geopolitical leverage.

Item Type: Article (Newspaper)
Additional Information: 9063/122422
Subjects: J Political Science > JZ International relations
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button): Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences > Department of Fundamental and Inter-Disciplinary Studies (Effective: 5th Feb 2014)
Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences
Depositing User: Abdulwahed Jalal Nori
Date Deposited: 06 Aug 2025 16:51
Last Modified: 06 Aug 2025 16:53
URI: http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/122422

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