My Latest Blog: Unveiling Asia

A local council in Auckland, New Zealand recently declined a proposal to install a "peace statue" honoring "comfort women". During WWII, over 200,000 women from Korea, China and Southeast Asia were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military. While many community members saw the statue as a way to honor survivors and reflect on a painful past, the decision was ultimately swayed by diplomatic pressure and fears of local division. Japanese officials argued the monument

China is leaning hard into embodied AI, and it’s changing the overall schema of everyday life. They’re moving past basic automation into a world where robots, backed by platforms like ByteDance and Xiaomi, are working with people, not just replacing them. Wheeled robots helping house cleaners with the heavy lifting or humanoid police directing traffic and chatting with tourists in Hangzhou is becoming more and more normalized. This innovation is all part of a massive national

The Mekong River, a lifeline for 70 million people, is facing an existential threat as China is currently orchestrating an unregulated rare earth mining boom in Myanmar and Laos that leeches toxic heavy metals into its rivers. This contamination is poisoning fisheries and endangering Southeast Asia’s food supply, threatening the safety of global exports like Thai rice and fruit. As demand for these minerals surges for use in technology and military hardware, local communities