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,” […]
Amb. Kurt Tong, Managing Partner at The Asia Group, sat down with CNBC’s Emily Chan for an interview, in which he explained why China would welcome President Trump to visit Beijing following the recent Geneva talks. There would still be a lot of “bumps in the road” before the two leaders can eventually meet in person,
George Chen, TAG Managing Director & Digital Practice Co-Chair, spoke to Bloomberg Businessweek, sharing his thoughts on the U.S.-China race for AI dominance, mentioning, “Silicon Valley is no longer an attractive place for work for Chinese talent.”
Kurt Tong, TAG Managing Partner, shares his outlook for a long-term trade deal between the United States and China amid tariff reprieve stating, “There are economic reform measures that China is likely to want to pursue in the next few years in order to boost its growth rate… some of that involves foreign investment and
“If President Donald Trump insists on a whole raft of measures to do an equal reduction of tariffs by both sides, he isn’t going to get it,” said TAG Managing Partner, Amb. Kurt Tong, speaking with Barron’s. “China feels it has more leverage, more than it did eight years ago, and is less likely to
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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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“There was a clear choice, and Australia opted for a version of relaxed and comfortable, over a leap into the unknown. The risk of a Prime Minister Dutton was leveraged with none too subtle references to the “Americanisation” of policies,” wrote TAG Partner & Chair of Australia Practice, Hon. Arthur Sinodinos AO, in his opinion piece
TAG Managing Principal, Jennifer Schuch-Page, shared her thoughts with the Washington Post on Trump’s Global Climate Policy, stating, “The actual capacity building that USAID did, that work was an important part of U.S. soft power and public diplomacy… withdrawal of that inevitably gives China a leg up.”
TAG Partner Dan Kritenbrink joined PBS NewsHour’s Nick Schifrin, on the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, to share his thoughts on the evolution of US-Vietnam trade in the past half-century. He states, “To go from the brutality of that war and the depth of the tragedy that both countries experienced to
TAG Managing Partner Amb. Kurt Tong delivered a keynote address to 300 business executives, government officials, and other stakeholders at the Hankyung 2025 Global Financial Conference. His remarks focused on tariffs, trade, and the outlook on U.S.-China relations.
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