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TAG China Country Director Han Lin noted, “He’s forcing the room to focus on US leverage amid the smiles. If it lands a trade win, it’s genius; if it poisons the well, I guess we’re in...

TAG China Country Director Han Lin noted, “Yet though the core issues of the U.S.-China rivalry – such as technology controls, supply chain tensions, and security frictions – remain unresolved, even a temporary truce is better...

Szalwinski from The Asia Group said that countries have been hedging for some time by “doubling down on smaller, results-oriented ‘minilateral’ arrangements, oftentimes oriented around more narrow or tangible shared interests.”

TAG China Country Director Han Lin shared that “Beijing’s efforts to curb exports of fentanyl precursors, long unrecognized by Washington, are finally being acknowledged.” Trump and Beijing also confirmed that China agreed to pause recently announced...

Details of US-China trade deal is what will matter, says former US ambassador. Daniel Kritenbrink of The Asia Group, and former U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam, says U.S.-China competition is likely to intensify, though recent dialogue between...

TAG China Country Director Han Lin noted, “The move would set expectations for another 10 per cent tariff cut at the next Trump-Xi meeting.”

“Any deal is more tactical truce than game-changer,” Han Lin, the Shanghai-based managing director of consulting firm The Asia Group, says. “So while we can expect transactional headline-making wins – soybean sales, fentanyl tariff cuts –...

In the United States, bipartisan consensus is painfully hard to achieve—except on the issue of China. Even as American political polarization has intensified over the last eight years, both Republicans and Democrats have agreed that an...

Denmark, a partner at The Asia Group who leads its Australia practice, said in Trump’s first term “we saw the National Security Strategy (and) National Defence Strategy talking about competition with China, right? And he had...

Shailender Arya, Senior Advisor at The Asia Group, who co-authored the SIDM report, emphasized the need for a targeted export strategy. “India must explore new geographies aligned with our cost advantages, backed by a physical presence...

India, meanwhile, has until now resisted Trump’s direct pressure to stop buying Russian oil, in part because it wants Moscow to stay neutral if China-India tensions flare up again. With the new US sanctions in place,...

Trump meets Japan’s new PM Takaichi on his Asia trip. TAG Partner Dan Kritenberg observed: “I think it’s very important for President Trump to be visiting Japan on his first trip to Asia. Japan, of course,...