#105 Techno-Capitalism and Digital Colonisation
On Geoeconomics
Politico-Economic Implications (2025-2035) when an erosion of sovereign control over strategic industries, Malaysia risks becoming a subordinate node in the global digital economy, where data, semiconductor production, and AI innovations are dictated by foreign digital capital interests. This mirrors how the petroleum sector was historically dominated by foreign oil transnational corporations.
The next decade will determine whether Malaysia emerges as a sovereign AI and semiconductor hub or remains a passive digital colony. If current financial imperialism trends persist, Malaysia will be locked into data extraction, digital labor exploitation, and tech-driven financial subjugation.
The challenge lies in crafting alternative industrial policies, fostering domestic tech ecosystems, and resisting digital colonialisation from the neocolonial dictates of global capital.
Publications and productions posted in TWTW:
1] csloh.substack:
i. China’s 5% GDP Target, China Academy;
ii. Book Reviews: China’s road from revolution to reform; Protecting China’s Interests Overseas;
iii. US-EUROPE Rift - China’s View;
iv. China’s Science Advances, China Academy;
Chinese Weaponry in the Middle East, ChinaMed;
v. China’s Economy 2025 Report, xinhua.net;
vi. China’s Rise, Nationalism and Western Misconceptions, Sinification;
vii. China Ecological Civilization.
2] rainstorm videos:
Techno-Capitalism and Digital Monopolies; Digital Colonisation; Resisting Digital Colonisation; Powering the Digital Economy; Crony Capitalist bailout of SapuraEnergy;
3] TikTok:
a) UMNO NEP and UNDERDEVELOPMENT;
b) Petronas and the Proletariat;
d) Political Islam, Capitalism and Class;
e) Crony-capitalist bailout of SAPURA ENERGY;
g) Resisting Digital Colonisation
4] STORM'S PUBLICATIONS:
i) Digital Colonisation - a note;
ii) PNB bailout of monopoly-finance capital and ethnocapital;
iii) The critical role of talented workforce in achieving Malaysia’s National Semiconductor Strategy.
iv) US Two-pronged approach to China, (in the firesstorms site).
5] MOMENTUM #242.
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