{"id":9790,"date":"2026-07-07T08:33:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T08:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/?post_type=news&#038;p=9790"},"modified":"2026-07-07T08:38:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T08:38:47","slug":"beyond-the-us-china-ai-race-do-small-and-middle-powers-have-agency","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/news\/beyond-the-us-china-ai-race-do-small-and-middle-powers-have-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the US-China AI Race: Do Small and Middle Powers Have Agency?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">BANGI, 7Julai 2016 &#8211; Institut Kajian Malaysia dan Antarabangsa (IKMAS), UKM dengan kerjasama Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) Malaysia telah mengadakan siri seminar GeoGeoLab Talk bil.7\/2026 bertajuk &#8220;Beyond the US-China AI Race: Do Small and Middle Powers Have Agency?&#8221; yang telah disampaikan oleh Dr. Brian Wong, Sarjana Tamu IKMAS yang merupakan Assistant Professor daripada Jabatan Falsafah, University of Hong Kong.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">BANGI, 7 July 2016 &#8211; The Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), UKM in collaboration with Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) Malaysia held a series of GeoGeoLab Talk no. 7\/2026 entitled &#8220;Beyond the US-China AI Race: Do Small and Middle Powers Have Agency?&#8221; which was presented by Dr. Brian Wong, IKMAS Guest Scholar who is an Assistant Professor from the Department of Philosophy, University of Hong Kong.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-07_15-21-45.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9814\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-07_15-21-45-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" 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