“One of the few areas in which there is not real clarity about the ultimate direction of where President Trump wants to take a relationship is between the United States and China, and that’s similar to the first-term… under the Trump tent, there are very different views. You have some people who are very hardline, […]
Han Lin, China Country Director at The Asia Group, participated in a panel discussion and led a breakout session on how the landscape of global currencies, trade and central bank reserves would change over the next five years. Hosted by the World Economic Forum, the “Summer Davos” June 24-26 event focused on entrepreneurship, the global
Ambassador Dan Kritenbrink, Partner at The Asia Group, participated in a panel discussion hosted by the US-ASEAN Center, the Vietnam Embassy in the United States, and the US-ASEAN Business Council to mark 30 years of U.S.-Vietnam diplomatic relations. The conversation focused on the role of public-private partnerships in advancing bilateral cooperation and shaping the future
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Christopher Johnstone, a former senior US government Japan expert, said Tokyo viewed 2+2 meetings as a “very high priority” because they provided “politically valuable opportunities to showcase the strength of the US-Japan alliance”. He said postponing the meeting until after the Japanese election signalled “significant unease in Tokyo about the state of the bilateral relationship
Fresh off the heels of a U.S.-China trade truce reached in London, Ambassador Kurt Tong , Managing Partner at The Asia Group joins the Asia podcast crew. The team discusses the implications of the chaotic U.S. policy and how China and the broader region are readjusting to the dramatic shifts. Steve and Kurt sneak in some baseball
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The Pentagon is reviewing plans for the joint provision of nuclear submarines to Australia, a deal seen as the pillar of the trilateral security partnership between Australia, the U.K., and the U.S., or “AUKUS.” The review has sparked alarm in both Canberra and London and raises hard questions about U.S. shipbuilding capacity, defense readiness, and
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Kurt Tong, Managing Partner at The Asia Group, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss the impact of tech trade between U.S. and China.
Dan Kritenbrink, who was assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs in the Biden administration, said the London meeting produced “a fragile truce.” “Both sides have now demonstrated that they know where the other’s weak points are,” said Kritenbrink, now a partner at the Asia Group. “They demonstrated that they both have
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In January 2025, the second Trump administration was inaugurated. It didn’t take long for the world to learn what the president really meant by “Golden Age” and “America First” when he announced a slew of new diplomatic and trade initiatives. Trump 2.0, unafraid to embrace unpredictability, has had a sense of the beginning of a
Han Lin, China Country Director at The Asia Group, shared how “trade measures are increasingly applied to achieve non-economic objectives. It’s harder to disentangle economic from security concerns which is why any deal will be a long, drawn-out process.” Watch the full interview below:
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