Welcome to the first Relay Weekly!
Each Friday we pull together what Relay published that week: Analysis, Short Reads, and a few Suggested Reads from elsewhere, on technology, business and policy across Asia. If something is useful, forward it to a colleague or a friend!
This week, our Analysis looks at the tech hubs of Singapore and Hangzhou. When governments call themselves technology hubs, the label can hide the machinery that makes the claim credible. Singapore is building a more tightly governed perimeter around critical digital infrastructure. Hangzhou is using municipal and provincial policy to subsidise compute, fund startups and accelerate industrial capacity.
The Analysis compares those state tools — and why collaboration can widen without the models merging.