Media Mentions

(Starts at 02:05) TAG China Country Director Han Lin shared that “When people think of China, they often imagine a top‑down economy.  In fact much of China’s commercial energy is bottom‑up — entrepreneurs reading market signals, testing for demand, and scaling up quickly to seize short‑lived trends.”

In this video, Nikkei Asia’s Shotaro Tani sits down with Rintaro Nishimura, senior associate at the strategic advisory firm The Asia Group, to unpack all that has happened this year, and look ahead to the next.

“It’s an unexpected role reversal that the I.M.F. — patron saint of fiscal restraint — is nudging China toward a debt-fueled stimulus,” said Han Lin, the China country director for the Asia Group, a Washington consulting firm.

For the four decades he spent working on Asia policy at the Pentagon, state department and White House, Kurt Campbell dealt with many tough security issues, including a suspected Chinese spy balloon that flew over North America in 2023. But one of the most bizarre security incidents occurred just up the road from the farm

Han Lin, China country director of the Asia Group, a US consultancy, said he expected Katz to press “quietly and technically, for sharper IMF scrutiny of China’s external imbalances; but a loud, public ‘callout’ is unlikely”. “The IMF’s mandate, governance incentives and China’s weight all push the institution towards calibrated, consensus driven language rather than

But this isn’t the first time Vietnam has launched ambitious economic reforms. Dan Kritenbrink, partner at The Asia Group and former U.S. ambassador to Vietnam, underscored that its growth story actually begins years before these new reforms, specifically with the landmark “doi moi” policies initiated in 1986 . From there, it really took off in

“The H200 is now not just an AI chip but an example of how good or bad US-China relations can be,” George Chen, partner and co-chair of digital practice at The Asia Group, which was co-founded by former US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell. Trump’s desire to strike deals in areas where interests align is

Christopher Johnstone, a partner at strategic consultancy The Asia Group, said that as early as 1997, Japan had already made clear that a contingency in areas surrounding Japan where U.S.-Japan cooperation would come into play includes Taiwan. “This has a 30-year history. It is not new,” Johnstone said. “This was a statement from Takaichi on,

Even if Chinese firms begin buying Nvidia’s product, Beijing’s longer-term trajectory of self-sufficiency will continue. “In the long run, for the next five to ten years, China’s ‘self-reliance’ strategy for its own tech and innovation won’t change. Jensen Huang of Nvidia has a good time window to sell H200 but it won’t be … forever,”

George Chen, partner at consultancy The Asia Group, said he expected Chinese regulators to soften their hardline approach to Nvidia following Trump’s comments on Xi’s reaction, given efforts to improve U.S.-China relations. The H200 was also far more useful to China than the H20, he said. “I expect state media to gradually change their narrative