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“The Japanese public in general seems careless or even welcoming in some cases about having less Chinese tourists,” says Tokuko Shironitta, managing director for Japan at strategic advisory firm the Asia Group. For many Japanese businesses,...

“The Japan side is still looking for an off-ramp rather than seeking to escalate,” said Kurt Tong, a former senior US diplomat in Asia who’s now a managing partner at The Asia Group. “That could change...

“The pace and scale of Beijing’s reactions … are quite unprecedented,” said George Chen, partner of The Asia Group, a business policy consultancy based in Washington, D.C. He added that the biggest risk for Japanese brands...

Experts suggest that companies should not only rely on Indian government orders. “R&D investments will lead to the building of products, and coupled with that, companies must explore export opportunities to cater to select nations,” said...

The Trump presidency is rather uniquely a top-down presidency and the number of people involved in shaping the direction and content of US China interactions to date has been extraordinarily small. It’s a very tight circle...

A healthy US-Pakistan relationship could give the US leverage over India, according to Nisha Biswal, partner at The Asia Group and former US assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian Affairs during the Obama...

There was apprehension that a loss in Bihar could split Kumar’s party and threaten Modi’s federal coalition, which relies on 12 of his lawmakers. Kumar’s party was set to win a little over 80 seats. “The...

Down the road, “Chinese EV makers can also take a lot of [intellectual property] fees from such [tech] collaboration,” said George Chen, a partner at The Asia Group. “This will be significant because 30, 40 years...

“India’s oil purchases from Russia are on the downward trend,” Ashok Malik, partner and chair of The Asia Group’s India practice, told GZERO. “This creates a pathway for the removal of the 25% ‘oil tariff’ on...

The report, by Colonel Shailender Arya and Anshita Shukla, speaks of an increase in demand for weaponry as conflicts, the two biggest being the ones between Russia-Ukraine and the Middleeast, have increased.

While China leads the world in supplying green tech, it is also the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions. Observers question whether it can fill the vacuum currently developing around leadership of the fight against...

Mira Rapp-Hooper, a former Biden administration official, warned that Trump’s use of the term will likely have “provoked significant anxiety in allied capitals, where allies fear that the Trump administration will cut deals with China that...