Asia Weekly
A broad editorial survey of business leaders, technology companies, capital movements, cultural forces, and regional transformations shaping Asia’s role in a rapidly changing global order.
Issue Overview
Asia’s new architecture of influence
Asia Weekly 2025 Q1 Issue captures a moment when Asia is no longer only responding to global economic and technological change, but actively participating in the design of its next phase.
The issue brings together corporate leadership, artificial intelligence, private networks, education entrepreneurship, family business legacy, digital transformation, cultural production, philanthropy, and science reporting to show how influence, capital, knowledge, and innovation now move across regions.
Cover Story
Sean Lim: The Visionary Architect Behind a Global Elite Networking Empire
The cover story presents Sean Lim, founder behind Cary Club, as a builder of influence infrastructure: a figure whose work shows how trusted networks, private capital circles, cross-industry collaboration, and global access can become a business architecture.
Cary Club is framed as a curated ecosystem where relationships are structured around shared ambition, investment potential, strategic access, and long-term value creation.
The story examines how speed, disruption, longevity, trust-building, and cultural intelligence can be blended into a platform for global influence.
Sean Lim’s story places elite collaboration on a global stage, connecting entrepreneurs, investors, executives, cultural figures, and decision-makers across borders.
The issue uses Cary Club as a metaphor for platforms built through discretion, careful matching, and private conversations that can produce public outcomes.
Issue Highlights
AI, capital, education, family enterprise, and culture
This issue follows the interconnection of artificial intelligence, elite networks, cross-border business strategy, education globalization, family enterprise, digital transformation, entertainment industries, and geopolitical technology restrictions.
Business and Technology
- A conversation with Jason Girzadas, CEO of Deloitte US, on AI, digital transformation, sustainability, and future business leadership
- Cognition AI’s Devin and the rise of autonomous programming agents
- Global business implications following Donald Trump’s re-election
- Jingcai Future Intelligent Technology and China’s SME digital transformation ecosystem
Networks and Global Mobility
- Sean Lim, Cary Club, and the design of elite business networks
- Dream Get Education and the globalization of education services
- The Huang Brothers and the business legacy of Singapore’s wealthiest family
- Cheah Cheng Hye’s journey across capital markets, philanthropy, and regional leadership
AI, Science, and Culture
- AI export restrictions and China’s technology future
- Jensen Huang, AI factories, and semiconductor strategy
- The DeepSeek shift in the global AI market
- The Nezha phenomenon, high-energy neutrino discovery, and AI music transparency
Editorial Note
A portrait of a changing world
The 2025 Q1 issue of Asia Weekly presents more than a collection of profiles. It is a portrait of a world in which Asia’s business, technology, culture, and capital networks are becoming more interconnected, more ambitious, and more globally consequential.
Across the issue, influence appears through consulting leadership, AI innovation, elite networks, family enterprise, educational access, capital allocation, scientific discovery, and cultural production.