Han Lin, China Country Director at The Asia Group, joined the panel on BBC Business Matters where he explained that “China prohibits Bitcoin use despite recognizing it as an asset protected by law. In contrast, blockchain – the underlying architecture of Bitcoin – is looked upon favorably as an effective tool for Xi’s anti-corruption drive.”
Mira Rapp-Hooper, former National Security Council senior director for East Asia and Oceania in the Biden administration, is now a partner at The Asia Group, where she focuses on geopolitical risk. Post-government, she has taken on a personal project: learning Japanese. “It will take me a long time to get fluent, but it’s great fun,”
Han Lin, China Country Director at The Asia Group, commented in Bloomberg that despite the U.S. government’s concern of U.S. banks financing CATL, “any punishment in the current political environment would be a mere slap on the wrist at worst. The appetite to sanction US banks for China engagement appears restrained.”
TAG Partner Amb. Dan Kritenbrink spoke at Caixin’s China Conference in London, where he discussed the upcoming U.S.-China trade talks and the need for both sides to avoid public posturing.
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Han Lin, China Country Director at The Asia Group, commented in Bloomberg that “Global banks probably need CATL more than CATL needs them. Times are tough for global banks covering China, and all evidence points to the situation getting tougher.” Nonetheless, CATL does benefit from working with the international banks which “also lend legitimacy for
This week marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon, which ended two decades of brutal war in Vietnam that cost upwards of three million lives. This year is also the 30th anniversary of normalized relations between the U.S. and Vietnam, which transformed the former adversaries into trade partners. Meanwhile, trade talks between the two
For Kurt Campbell, the former U.S. deputy secretary of state and long-time Asia hand, one challenge stands out in a world rocked by conflicts and tensions: how to avoid a dangerous spiral with China. “Probably, no two countries are more interdependent than China and the U.S.,” he said in an exclusive interview with Nikkei Asia
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Think of the US-China contest as geopolitics on a chessboard, but not the game of kings and pawns. Rather, consider the Asian strategy game called weiqi in Chinese. The US started the 21st century with considerable advantage, but with high tariffs, Washington has weakened its position, given up turf on its weiqi board, and taken
President Donald Trump said the US is in talks with China on tariffs, and a deal could be done “over the next three or four weeks”. Mr Trump would not say whether he has spoken directly with Chinese President Xi Jinping, but insisted that China has been in touch since tariffs were imposed. According to
For years in U.S. foreign policy circles, discussions of China focused on its growing wealth, power, and ambition and the fear that it would supplant the United States. But a few years ago, the conversation took a sharp turn. Rather than fixating on China’s rise, most analysis began to focus on the country’s stagnation and
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