00:00As U.S.-China competition continues to shape the global landscape,
00:05questions are growing over where ASEAN fits into an increasingly fragmented world.
00:10Alina Noor, a non-resident scholar with the Asia program at Carnage Endowment for International Peace,
00:16says while ASEAN welcomes signs of stabilizing U.S.-China ties,
00:21division over advanced technology and AI continue to pose challenges for the region.
00:26And there is great interest in this region, whether it's Malaysia or other countries in the ASEAN region,
00:33to see a tempering down of tensions between the U.S. and China.
00:40And where it's headed right now seems to be encouraging.
00:43That said, as I mentioned earlier, there are these more fundamental issues related to how China and the U.S.
00:52are diverging on advanced technology, particularly with AI chips.
00:57Jensen Huang decided to join President Trump's entourage at the last minute.
01:03And it's notable that while there's been some movement on Washington's spot with regard to the sale of NVIDIA's H200
01:10chips to China,
01:11China has not actually made the same, made reciprocal moves to allow the sale of these chips in China.
01:21And only a few weeks ago, the White House actually released a statement about how it accuses China of large
01:30-scale,
01:31industrial-scale, I believe was the term, industrial-scale campaign of distilling U.S. AI
01:37in order for China to build its own AI prowess.
01:41And so what this means for our region is that we still have to watch our role and where we
01:48stand with regards to the supply of these chips,
01:52these advanced chips.
01:54We have been accused of being transshipment points for China by the U.S.
01:59So we still have to keep our eyes peeled for that.
02:02But it does, for now at least, bode some sort of optimism that the U.S. and China are at
02:09least willing to talk to each other
02:11and willing to keep those doors open.
02:13So we'll see you in the next one.
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