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260116_Lee shifts to ‘managed stability’

  • seeking to thaw frosty relations with Beijing and solidify a forward-looking partnership with Tokyo

  • this New Year diplomacy signals a strategic shift toward regional stabilization

  • it was a symbolic end to the long diplomatic winter that had persisted since the 2016 Thaad deployment

260116_Greenland

  • as President Trump seems to toy with Greenland’s fate

  • people on the island don’t want to be recolonized by a new outside power

  • under Danish law, the island has the right to call for a referendum on independence

260119_Tariff on chips

  • future tariff exposure may be shaped through investment talks

  • it secured assurances that it would not face treatment worse than that accorded to Taiwan, Japan or the European Unioln in the chip sector

  • that ambiguity leaves room for pressure to build

260119_Russia confronts the drone age

  • with relatively cheap drones neutralizing much more expensive weapons

  • massing forces near the front line has become a death trap

  • drones on both sides now execute myriad battlefield tasks, including reconnaissance, radio-electronic warfare and attacks

  • drones have become the primary weapon against soldiers and equipment

260123_Kospi tops 5,000

  • experts generally attribute the surge to solid corporate earnings growth fueled by a narrow set of large-cap companies

  • potentially dragging down the entire index if an AI-driven bubble were to emerge

  • despite weak market sentiment triggered by the declaration of martial law in late 2024, the Kospi began to recover following the inauguration of the new administration in June last year, which had pledged during the presidential campaign to bring the index to 5,000 points

Chip gains not enough to prevent GDP drop

  • well below the central bank’s forecast, preliminary data

  • construction shaved 0.5 percentage points off growth

  • high construction costs have weakened profitability and prevented projects from moving into the construction phase

  • if liquidity continues to flow into financial markets rather than the real economy, an improvement in headline growth may fail to translate into better conditions for households and businesses

  • citing risks to the currency and inflation