Which East Asian stock exchange triggered market-wide circuit breakers on consecutive trading days for the first time in its history last week?

1. The Tokyo Stock Exchange
2. The Korea Exchange
3. The Shanghai Stock Exchange
4. The Taiwan Stock Exchange

Taiwan’s second quarter GDP growth, released July 31, came in at what rate?

1. 8.63%
2. 10.83%
3. 12.92%
4. 15.40%

China and Japan issued directly contradictory public accounts last week regarding what?

1. Whether a scheduled leaders’ summit had been cancelled
2. Whether rare earth export controls had been lifted
3. Whether a Chinese vessel entered Japan’s exclusive economic zone
4. Whether their foreign ministers spoke at the ASEAN meetings in Manila

Which infrastructure project did Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale announce the United States had committed to financing?

1. A submarine cable landing station in Honiara
2. Bina Harbour deep-water port
3. An expansion of Henderson International Airport
4. A hydroelectric facility on Guadalcanal

What did analysts identify last week as the reason the Pacific Islands Forum failed to issue a joint statement on China’s July 6 missile test?

1. Procedural deadlock over the Forum’s consensus rules
2. Member governments hedging to preserve ties with all major powers
3. A dispute over whether the test fell inside the Treaty of Rarotonga zone
4. Objections from Australia and New Zealand over the draft wording

Pacific ICT ministers meeting in Nadi last week endorsed regional principles governing which technology?

1. Undersea cable security standards
2. Satellite spectrum allocation
3. Artificial intelligence
4. Cryptocurrency regulation

Answers

1. B: The KOSPI fell 10.84% on July 28 to close at 6,023.66, its fourth-largest single-day decline on record, then triggered a second circuit breaker on July 29 after SK Hynix’s record second quarter results missed analyst consensus.
   
2. C: Taiwan’s Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics published an advance estimate of 12.92% year-on-year growth on July 31, beating its own May forecast of 10.83% by more than two percentage points.
   
3. D: Motegi said he had briefly discussed bilateral relations with Wang Yi when the two crossed paths in Manila, but Chinese spokesperson Lin Jian stated on Monday that Wang had no meeting with the Japanese side on his schedule and that no brief exchanges took place.
   
4. B: Wale said after returning from Washington that US officials gave a firm commitment, subject to details, to finance a wharf, power, fuel storage, and roads at Bina Harbour, a deep-water port Washington and Canberra had feared China could develop as a dual-use facility. The US International Development Finance Corporation has signed memorandums with several South Pacific states indebted to China since May.
   
5. B: China described the July 6 launch of a submarine-launched strategic missile carrying a dummy warhead as routine annual training, and the missile landed near the exclusive economic zones of Tuvalu and Kiribati, roughly 1,000 km northeast of Solomon Islands.
   
6. C: Pacific ICT ministers endorsed regional artificial intelligence technology principles at the Pacific Fibre Conference 2026 in Nadi, to be presented to leaders for approval later this year. The move places the region among the first blocs of small island states to attempt a coordinated AI governance framework.