Author name: Lauren Dueck

In December 2025, The Asia Group (TAG) launched its inaugural GeoCommercial Strategy survey[i] to develop an understanding of how geopolitical trends are affecting and shaping business. The survey focused not just on what is affecting business but how businesses are responding and thinking about the future. These are the top five takeaways for the road […]

“The old world is gone, clearly. But what is the new world? We don’t know yet,” said Zhu Min, a well-respected Chinese economist and former deputy managing director at the International Monetary Fund. Zhu made the comment when asked about his impressions of the World Economic Forum, held last week in Davos, Switzerland. This year,

As winter snows begin to melt along the Himalayas this spring, Indian and Chinese troops will once again start actively patrolling their respective positions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) — the 2500-mile disputed boundary line between the two Asian neighbors. The disputed LAC — and the strategic mistrust it symbolizes — remains front

  It is entirely possible that 2026 will be the most consequential year in American Asia policy in recent decades. President Donald Trump’s planned April trip to Beijing and subsequent meetings with Xi Jinping will attempt to reshape almost a decade of bipartisan competitive approaches to the PRC, with significant second and third order consequences

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