Media Mentions

The slowdown of capital controls loosening has been a “primary detriment to China and to Shanghai being an international financial center in the conventional sense,” said Han Lin, China Country Director, The Asia Group.  “But capital controls are ultimately a matter of national security to Beijing.”

(Start on Minute: 16:55) “Water shortages affect Chinese agriculture and pose risks to its drive toward food security by increasing the need for imports at a time when China is trying to become more food self-sufficient.  It’s no coincidence that China’s richest man sells water.” says Han Lin, China Country Director, The Asia Group.

TAG Partner and Chair of the Australia Practice, Hon. Arthur Sinodinos, was a distinguished speaker at the ING Wholesale Bank Global Capital Markets dinner on November 20th,  where he discussed implications for the macroeconomic and geopolitical landscape following the U.S. election.

TAG Partner and Australia Chair, the Hon. Arthur Sinodinos AO, recently spoke at the Sydney International Strategy Forum 2024 where he discussed the next U.S. administration’s challenges and opportunities in the Indo-Pacific and the world more broadly.

“Asia’s security environment is becoming increasingly complex as regional powers navigate intensifying rivalries and shifting alliances. Rising tensions between the United States and China have forced smaller Asian countries to balance their economic ties with China against security concerns and alliances with the U.S.” Click here to view the full event description.

TAG managing partner Amb. Kurt Tong interviews with Taiwan’s TVBS, sharing insight on Trump 2.0 impact on Taiwan and beyond.

“APEC is all about making steady but gradual progress on economic development and economic integration using a unique multilateral line-up of members. Thus it is not well-suited to Donald Trump’s transactional, one-one-one, one-off deal and personalized approach to getting things done. That said, working level officials in the next Trump administration could contribute to APEC

“Before the election in the US, there was a lot of activity in Australia to work out who is going to win and, if so, what are the policies going to be,” Sinodinos said Tuesday in an interview with Bloomberg Television in Sydney. “The Australian government will be relatively well-prepared for what’s coming.”

Following disengagement on the India-China frontier in Ladakh, there’s speculation about how much bilateral economic relations will, and should be, normalised. In some circles this has taken a silly turn, with claims of an alleged B&W divide between economic ministries and diplomatic/security authorities. Complex policy choices are reduced to simplistic Manichean dualism.

TAG Managing Partner Amb. Kurt Tong shares insight on U.S. elections, WH restrictions on AI investments in China, and U.S.-China trade.