When Malaysia’s deputy minister of communications, Teo Nie Ching, announced the launch of the country’s “sovereign AI infrastructure” powered by Huawei Technologies’ advanced computing chips and the DeepSeek large language model, she inadvertently set off a geopolitical maelstrom.In the crosshairs of Teo’s announcement was the activation of Huawei’s Ascend chips on a national scale and the planned roll-out of 3,000 of those chips by next year to “form the backbone of Malaysia’s national AI...