Compiled every national AI strategy in Asia — Vietnam has the most comprehensive standalone law, Japan has no penalties, Korea just eliminated Naver from sovereign LLM competition for using Qwen weights

Compiled a tracker of every national AI strategy in Asia. Headline is that ten major Asian economies now have dedicated AI legislation or comprehensive national strategies, and they're all quite distinct from Western legislation like the EU AI Act or US executive orders. Clear that Asian governments treat AI as infrastructure, not a sector to regulate from a distance. Most national approaches lean promotional (incentives, sandboxes, sovereign LLM funding) rather than punitive (bans, heavy compliance.