“The meeting showed how quickly political winds can change for Chinese business,” said Han Shen Lin, China country director for US consultancy The Asia Group. “It was only a few years ago that the same sector was under a regulatory chokehold,” said Lin. “Now suddenly they’re the favoured son again.” Lin stressed that Xi’s message […]
“One can either seize opportunities that appear and build one’s capacities – or simply add to the chaos and the noise. Modi and his team are acting as would be expected of custodians of India’s interest,” said Ashok Malik, TAG Partner and Chair of India Practice. “Having said that, diplomatic inflection points will emerge not
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“There are many reasons for the WTO’s irrelevance at this historic moment. Reason one is the failure of the WTO to address China’s non-market actions and how it got to its dominance in exporting to the world.” – Mark Linscott, TAG Senior Advisor Read: https://www.hinrichfoundation.com/research/article/trade-distortion-and-protectionism/trump-reciprocal-tariffs-took-root-in-the-wto-failings/
“My best guess would be that if the U.S. does some kind of blanket global policy on reciprocal tariffs, that Japan would not be excluded from that,” said TAG Managing Partner, Kurt Tong to The Japan Times, noting that Japan does not have particularly high tariffs against American products. Read: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/10/japan/politics/ishiba-trump-meeting-analysis/
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“By highlighting what Japan could do to help Trump’s America First agenda, Ishiba offered a template for other countries to deal with Trump’s transactional nature,” said TAG Vice President, Yuka Hayashi to Bloomberg. “Ishiba’s praise of Trump for everything from surviving an assassination attempt, removing restrictions on US fossil fuel extraction and spurring Japan’s moves
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“There is no way that Trump will actually engage directly” with an acting president, said Jennifer Lee, a principal at the Asia Group in Washington who focuses on the Korean Peninsula. “So waiting six months to have that kind of highest-level meeting will definitely hurt the country,” she said, “especially given the uncertainty around the
“Going after PVH is notable because it’s the first time a consumer brand was targeted” with the “unreliable entity” designation, said Sam Ide, a vice president who specializes in China at the Asia Group, a business consulting firm. PVH has a “significant enough China presence, but [the designation] wasn’t going to have big economic ramifications,”
“It’s in Trump’s and Xi’s interest to strike a deal. China has more to lose. If China cannot export its way to GDP growth it has little choice but to concentrate on boosting the economy through other means. We’ll have a better indication of how in the upcoming March Two Sessions.” – Han Lin, TAG
“The tariff tit-for-tat, while unfortunate, was not unexpected. China has the capacity to respond swiftly and strongly but appears to be taking a measured approach to demonstrate strength without over-escalating,” says Han Lin, TAG China Country Director on the BBC World News
Putting these U.S. companies on the unreliable entities list is “alarming” because it shows that the Chinese government is using the list to pressure U.S. companies to take a side, said George Chen, managing director for The Asia Group, a Washington D.C.-headquartered business policy consultancy. “It’s almost like telling American companies, what your government is
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