Lionel Lim

Lionel Lim is a Singapore based reporter covering the Asia-Pacific region. Before joining Fortune he spent time at BBC in Singapore, and CGTN and CNN in the United States.

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Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., displays the new Blackwell GPU chip during the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose, California, US, on Monday, March 18, 2024. Dubbed the Woodstock festival of AI by Bank of America analysts, GTC this year is set to draw 300,000 in-person and virtual attendees for the debut of Nvidia’s B100. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Nvidia is reportedly making another China-focused AI chip as U.S. export controls hit its business in the world’s second largest economy

Yuan banknote on the background of stock charts. Sovereign wealth investors have listed geopolitical uncertainty as the biggest short-term and long-term risk in the latest report by Invesco.

Sovereign wealth investors think geopolitics and election uncertainty, not inflation, is their biggest risk

An Ioniq car on the assembly line at Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Center Singapore.

Hyundai’s new Singapore factory features a Michelin chef-run Korean restaurant

Mars Wrigley’s Regional General Manager for Asia, Kalpesh Parmar thinks there’s room for growth in Southeast Asia because chocolate consumption is still low.

Mars wants to sell more chocolate in Southeast Asia—and that means dealing with extreme heat and consumers who ‘want content every minute’

SUQIAN, CHINA – JULY 15, 2024 – Nongfu Spring purified water for sale at a supermarket in Suqian, Jiangsu province, China, July 15, 2024. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

A Chinese bottled water giant founded by the country’s richest person is picking a fight with Hong Kong’s consumer watchdog

MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN – JULY 15: Trump’s pick for Vice President, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) arrives on the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 15, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Delegates, politicians, and the Republican faithful are in Milwaukee for the annual convention, concluding with former President Donald Trump accepting his party’s presidential nomination. The RNC takes place from July 15-18. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump’s new VP pick J.D. Vance says China is the ‘biggest threat’ to the U.S.

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FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH 2024<br />
Monday, July 15th, 2024<br />
Park City, Utah
5:45 – 6:15 PM<br />
CAN THE U.S. COMPETE WITH CHINA?<br />
The rivalry between the U.S. and China is hardly new, but the federal government kicked off a fresh round of competition between the two global powers when it stepped in to legislate the sale of TikTok. Things have gotten tense—especially in technology. Is cooperation or tension in store for these frenemies? A pair of leading voices debate the path forward.
Ben Harburg, Managing Partner, MSA Capital <br />
Jacob Helberg, Commissioner, United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission; Senior Policy Advisor to the CEO, Palantir Technologies <br />
Interviewer: Andrew Nusca, FORTUNE
Photograph by Steve Vargo/Fortune

Experts worry that a U.S.-China cold war could turn hot: ‘Everyone’s waiting for the shoe to drop in Asia’

The Tecno Poca 6 Pro, Tecno Mobile’s latest gaming smartphone, is being displayed in its signature Meteorite Grey color at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on April 3, 2024. (Photo by Joan Cros/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Qualcomm sues China’s Transsion, the ‘Smartphone King of Africa,’ for infringing on its patents

SHANGHAI, CHINA – JANUARY 31, 2024 – A UNIQLO flagship store in Shanghai, China, January 31, 2024. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Shares of Uniqlo’s parent company drop almost 5% as the retailer warns of a ‘turning point’ in its China strategy

Tourists walk through Nakamise shopping street near Sensoji Temple in Tokyo on April 30, 2024. (Photo by Yuichi YAMAZAKI / AFP) (Photo by YUICHI YAMAZAKI/AFP via Getty Images)

The weak yen and ‘Instagram culture’ made tourism Japan’s second-largest export. Not everyone is happy about that

Piyush Gupta, chief executive officer of DBS Group Holdings Ltd., during a news conference in Singapore, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. DBS said its full-year results hit a record, though Gupta’s compensation took a hit due to last year’s digital banking disruptions. Photographer: Suhaimi Abdullah/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Trump’s policies paint a ‘negative picture,’ yet his willingness to ‘cut deals’ may help with China, says the CEO of Southeast Asia’s largest bank

Peter Wennink, outgoing chief executive officer of ASML Holding NV, left, and Christophe Fouquet, chief executive officer of ASML Holding NV, during the company’s annual general meeting in Veldhoven, Netherlands, on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. Fouquet, previously ASML’s chief business officer, will have to navigate the complex relationship that has put the company’s Chinese exports in the crosshairs of both the Biden and Trump administrations. Photographer: Peter Boer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

China is still a decade behind the U.S. in chip technology—but the world still needs the mature chips it’s making, says ASML’s CEO

Workers check inside the hood of a BYD Co. Dolphin compact hatchback electric vehicle at the company’s new plant in Nikhom Phatthana, Rayong province, Thailand, on Thursday, July 4, 2024. BYD’s shares have defied heavy losses in EV stocks around the world to gain more than 6% in Hong Kong this year thanks to the introduction of the fifth generation of its plug-in hybrid drive system in May. Photographer: Valeria Mongelli/Bloomberg via Getty Images

BYD’s aggressive discounts are annoying customers—and officials—in Thailand, the ‘Detroit of Asia’

Workers are observing the production of electronic chips through an electronic display in Chongqing, China, on March 30, 2022. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

China is poised to dominate the market for legacy chips, and the U.S. may only have itself to blame

SHANGHAI, CHINA – NOVEMBER 06: People look at a Tesla Model Y SUV at the Tesla booth during the sixth China International Import Expo (CIIE) at the National Exhibition and Convention Center on November 6, 2023 in Shanghai, China. The 6th China International Import Expo kicked off on Sunday, with many cutting-edge technologies and new products making their debuts at the event. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

China, eager to show it’s open to non-Chinese brands, puts Tesla on a government procurement list for the first time