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ASEAN Business In Brief
The Azean Angle is an ASEAN Business Bulletin that provides you with briefings on essential insights into the business landscape of the region. With our comprehensive coverage of economic, political, and social factors affecting the ASEAN community, you can stay informed and mitigate risks that may impact your business. Our team of seasoned analysts is committed to delivering high-quality, actionable insights to support your strategic planning and decision-making.
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Apology, Clarification and Respect: Tengku Zafrul Deserves Credit.
Malaysia didn't announce any "deal" publicly because it didn’t want to appear to have caved. Washington didn’t trumpet the revision because it didn’t want to appear to have backed down. The result: a textbook case in face-saving diplomacy.
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Aug 57 min read


Part 3 (of 3 Parts) Malaysia’s Moment: Leading ASEAN Toward a $Trillion USD stablecoin regime by leveraging The Genius Act.
Instead of fighting over a 25% tariff, Malaysia can write a new chapter in digital finance and bring ASEAN with it.
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Jul 296 min read


Part 2 (of 3 parts): How Trump’s GENIUS Act Crushes The CBDC Fantasy & Central Bank Tyranny.
The Deep State’s power rests on global institutions—the IMF, BIS, SWIFT — and the opaque systems they control. Trump’s stablecoin strategy directly targets their leverage.
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Jul 266 min read


Part 1 (of 3 parts): Trump's GENIUS Act: Digitizing US Debt to Save the Dollar – And Dismantling Deep State Control?
The GENIUS Act might actually be part of Trump's long game to manage, restructure—or at least strategically offload—some of that debt. It may not erase the debt overnight, but it could very well soften the blow and buy time for deeper structural reform.
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Jul 224 min read


The Ceasefire Won’t Hold Unless Netanyahu and Khamenei Fall — And Trump Knows It.
The entire region is now one thread away from unraveling two of the most dangerous and entrenched figures in modern geopolitics:
• Khamenei, the theocratic dinosaur whose regime is rotting from the inside.
• Netanyahu, the embattled Prime Minister who needs bombs to stay out of prison.
Neither of them can co-exist with peace. And so, if Trump truly wants this ceasefire to evolve into a durable realignment of the Middle East, he will have to let one fall — and push the
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Jun 266 min read


The Tariff War Is Not About China, per se - It's About the Deep State.
As President Trump has repeatedly asserted, the elite — particularly those on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley — did not merely "turn a blind eye" to China’s bad behavior. They facilitated it, encouraged it and profited from it.
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Apr 226 min read


The Roar Before the Retreat: Why China’s Confidence Is a Red Flag, Not a Rallying Cry.
This isn’t about destroying China. It’s about ending the dangerous dependency that globalization created. For too long, the West traded short-term savings for long-term vulnerability. Now, the U.S. is taking steps to reverse that and China is in retreat.
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Apr 175 min read


The Tariff Trap: How Trump Outmaneuvered Beijing While Everyone Was Watching the Dow.
It is clear that the next chapter of U.S. trade policy will be crucial in shaping the global economy. Can the Trump administration expedite trade deals, navigate the complex dynamics of the U.S.-China trade war, and reassert U.S. dominance on the world stage?
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Apr 1511 min read


BRICS De-dollarization. Goodbye Dollar; Hello Blockchain!
BRICS De-dollarization Is Essentially The Fight For Freedom Central to America’s power and prestige in global leadership is the dollar....
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Mar 5, 20243 min read
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