When Malaysia-China relations are discussed, attention often centres on trade volumes, investment flows and major infrastructure projects.

Across Asia, women entrepreneurs are increasingly becoming the primary catalysts of digital transformation.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a distant concept confined to science fiction or research laboratories. Today, it is actively reshaping the global economy, driving productivity, innovation, and transforming everyday life. As governments and industries increasingly embrace these technological breakthroughs, a central policy challenge emerges.

THE Global Civilisation Initiative (GCI) has yielded mutual benefits across Southeast Asian (Asean) countries by integrating cultural dialogue with economic and sustainable development.

THE diplomatic and economic relationship between Malaysia and China has evolved into a broad strategic partnership that is increasingly shaped by collaboration in advanced technologies and a shared commitment to human-centred development.

Beijing launched its Global Civilisation Initiative (GCI), calling for equality between civilisations, mutual learning and dialogue, rejecting any claim that one civilisation is superior, and insisting that modernisation should not follow only a Western path.

FROM Dr Nurul Aqilah Binti Mhd Yusak is an Assistant Professor at Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology. The views expressed here are entirely the writer's own.

CHINA'S President Xi Jinping noted that in today's world, where the future and destinies of all countries are closely intertwined, the inclusive coexistence and mutual learning among different cultures play an irreplaceable role in advancing the modernisation of human society and enriching the global garden of civilisations.

MALAYSIA stands at a pivotal juncture as it accelerates its transition toward a low-carbon economic order.

SINCE the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), academic and policy discussions have shifted from a primary focus on hard infrastructure and trade facilitation towards the initiative's "people-to-people" dimension.

Under the Asean-China Free Trade Agreement (ACFTA) and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), economic integration is increasingly aligned with sustainability and climate goals.

The march toward a fully digitalised economy has become a defining feature of national competitiveness, and this is evident in the ambitions laid out by China to build a Digital China.