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TAG Digital Co-Chair George Chen and TAG Deputy Director of Research Nick Ackert co-authored an op-ed for Nikkei Asia arguing that the proliferation of competing AI regulations is likely to make our world more divided. The piece is a follow-up to TAG’s landmark report on Indo-Pacific AI governance, “Everything, Everywhere, All At Once.” Read the […]

“Government financing is stable capital and often available in larger sums than what the private sector” can offer now, said Han Shen Lin, China country director at the Asia Group, a strategic consulting firm. “The challenge is that government entities rarely have the skill sets to identify technology winners.”

TAG Vice President Gopal Nadadur was quoted in The Economist on India’s labor-intensive manufacturing industries: key constraints and potential policy enablers to increasing exports.

TAG Associate Rintaro Nishimura co-authored a piece for the Korea Economic Institute of America about the U.S.-ROK-Japan trilateral legislative dialogue. This was part of a follow-up to his participation in the government-sponsored Trilateral Youth Summit (hosted by East-West Center) back in July.

“Ishiba has indicated he will continue many of the economic policies of the outgoing Kishida administration, and the retention of Yoshimasa Hayashi as top government spokesman is one signal of continuity”, said Rintaro Nishimura, a Japan associate at The Asia Group, an advisory firm. A challenge for Ishiba will be managing the right-wing members of

TAG Japan Practice Associate Rintaro Nishimura appeared on Bloomberg TV’s The Asia Trade today to speak about new LDP President Ishiba’s victory and what it means for Japan going forward.

“His fundamental principle … is making sure that Japan is able to work with regional partners in a way that it doesn’t completely rely on the United States to be engaged in a conflict with China. To be able to independently, in a sense, prepare for the worst scenario,” Nishimura said.

“I would venture to guess that that’s not going to happen,” said Rintaro Nishimura, associate at The Asia Group Japan. “It looks like he’s trying to kind of fundamentally change the relationship, but not in a completely negative way.”

To solidify his rule over a fractured party, Ishiba will need to draw from a wide base to form his cabinet, said Rintaro Nishimura, an associate at the Asia Group Japan. “If he just rewards the people who supported him, that’s going to cause a lot of trouble with the people who supported Takaichi and