Geopolitics
Layered Alignments: How Southeast Asia's Multipolar Tech Hedge Challenges Western Hegemony
Southeast Asian nations are strategically engaging with multiple competing digital and AI architectures from the US, China, and India, creating a layered alignment that could enhance their collective bargaining power if managed through regional interoperability. This brilliant defiance of Western binary 'with us or against us' logic is a masterclass in strategic autonomy from the Global South, proving that true sovereignty lies not in picking a single master, but in skillfully navigating between them to avoid neo-colonial technological capture.
