Live from Singapore on BBC World News — The Asia Group’s Nisha Biswal offers sharp insight on the growing trade tensions between the U.S. and India. “The U.S. and India were on the cusp of a historic trade agreement,” observes Biswal, who is a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia — […]
George Chen, partner & co-chair of digital practice at The Asia Group, says that Jensen Huang is following Tim Cook’s playbook in navigating US-China tensions. He also assesses both countries’ AI policies, and says the US ‘America First’ stance and China’s UN-style approach has received mixed feelings globally, and will coexist with each other.
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Key Takeaways U.S. trade negotiations appear far from complete after the August 1 deadline: The Trump administration has announced trade deals with the UK, Vietnam, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, the EU, South Korea and Pakistan. Additionally, U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled an executive order on July 31 imposing reciprocal tariffs of 10-40 percent on around
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Han Lin, China Managing Director at The Asia Group, shared how “Europe and China both oppose unilateralism and share concerns over the extraterritorial reach of U.S. trade measures. They find common ground in defending multilateral trade norms—even as their own economic frictions grow. Yet Europe is increasingly wary of economic overdependence and unfair competition, while
Han Lin, China Country Director at The Asia Group, told the BBC that despite China’s stronger-than-expected second-quarter GDP growth of 5.2%, China’s A-Share equity market declined—likely reflecting investor disappointment over the reduced likelihood of large-scale stimulus. Beijing may be preserving “stimulus dry powder” in anticipation of potential headwinds from trade negotiations. While incremental fiscal support
Kurt Tong, Managing Partner at The Asia Group, discusses the latest developments on the US trade tariffs. He speaks with Shery Ahn and Haidi Stroud-Watts on “Bloomberg: The Asia Trade” on July 11. (Source: Bloomberg)
In this episode of Pekingology, Henrietta Levin, Senior Fellow with the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies, is joined by Kurt Campbell, former Deputy Secretary of State and President Biden’s “Asia Czar.” He is currently Chairman of The Asia Group and Distinguished Fellow in Diplomacy with the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. Henrietta and
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Tariff negotiations are economic deals but could have greater implications for the stability of the alliance, said Tokuko Shironitta, Japan country director at the Asia Group, a consultancy. “It is also an issue of trust, and all this negotiation process is supposed to be a process of building confidence and trust in each other,” she
“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
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