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Vol. 1, No. 1 — Autumn 2026

Inaugural issue · Published 30 September 2026 · Zurich

Events covered
1 July – 30 September 2026
Evidence cutoff
28 September 2026
Economic statistics
Q2 2026 accounts
Sources
144 numbered notes

About this issue

This inaugural issue records and analyses developments across Europe and Asia between 1 July and 30 September 2026.

The issue first establishes the record, then argues from it. A Snapshot isolates the Washington state visit of 23–25 September, because the two governments closed the quarter by publishing separate accounts of the same meeting. The quarter is then read under six lenses — politics, diplomacy, technology, society, climate and energy, and business — placed in order in a chronology, and measured in the economic results of Europe and Asia, using the latest official quarterly accounts.

Section E reads the two regions together, comparing patterns rather than scores: Europe integrates through rules, Asia through production. The analysis advances one proposition, the terms of connection changed, not the fact of it, tests it against the opposing reading, and sets it beside the World Economic Forum’s surveys.

Three commentaries follow: The Other AI Race, on power, work and human control; Managed Rivalry Inside Continued Trade, on the wider direction of the quarter; and Viet Nam’s Growth Test, on scale, spillovers and the middle-income trap. A column by Farhat Ali on Asia and the Middle East follows, and the issue closes with the editor’s words: a wish for business leaders and policymakers working between Europe and Asia.

A reported result, the journal’s argument, its commentary, a signed opinion and the editor’s closing wish are kept in separate places, so that one is not mistaken for another.

Contents

  1. Singularity Academy and Europe Asia Quarterly

    The publisher, and the journal

  2. Partner: SwissCham ASIA

    An introduction to the journal’s collaborating partner

  3. Road map of this issue

    How the issue is built, step by step

  4. Abstract and method

    Scope, sources and the rules of analysis

  5. Snapshot — Washington: two accounts, no joint text

    The state visit of 23–25 September 2026, recorded from each government’s own account

  6. The quarterly record: July–September 2026, under six lenses

    Politics · Diplomacy and security · Technology · Society and health · Climate and energy · Business and economics

  7. Chronology of the quarter

    The recorded developments in sequence, 1 July to the research cutoff

  8. Economic development: Europe and Asia

    Second-quarter 2026 accounts, Europe country by country and Asia by region

  9. Europe and Asia: integrated patterns and development directions

    How the regions integrate · Business is diversifying, not leaving · Technology · Security · Institutions · The overall direction

  10. Analysis: interdependence under pressure

    The terms of connection changed, not the fact of it; the opposing reading; resilience is not self-sufficiency; the World Economic Forum’s surveys

  11. Commentary: The Other AI Race

    Power, work and human control

  12. Commentary: Managed Rivalry Inside Continued Trade

    The wider direction of the quarter

  13. Commentary: Viet Nam’s Growth Test

    Scale, spillovers and the middle-income trap

  14. Opinion: Farhat Ali on Asia and the Middle East

    “Asia and the Middle East: the new power equation” (Business Recorder, 12 September 2026)

  15. The editor’s words: a wish

    For business leaders and policymakers working between Europe and Asia — positive thinking disciplined by truth

  16. Notes

    144 numbered sources

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ISSN 3043-2316 · Predecessor publication

ASIA BRIEF was the former monthly research publication of Singularity Academy, circulated with SwissCham ASIA, on Asia’s economic and business environment for Swiss–Asian business stakeholders. Recent issues came in English and Chinese, with an audio podcast edition. ISSN 3043-2316 identifies Asia Brief only and is not transferred to Europe Asia Quarterly. Read the Asia Brief archive at SwissCham ASIA →