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Kelly Magsamen, who was chief of staff to Biden’s defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, says that in normal circumstances, there would be some kind of US military demonstration ahead of the summit, such as a dual carrier strike group operation in the South China Sea, as a show of strength.

“It’s not about duration. It’s about a war of wills here and who’s going to blink first. Both countries have a blockade on Hormuz, but the difference between both countries is that the U.S. doesn’t have a strategy, doesn’t have a political objective. Iran has a very clear strategy,” says TAG Managing Director for the

“That Taiwan is the ‘biggest risk’ is deliberate escalatory language designed to test Washington’s threshold,” Mr Han Shen Lin, China managing director for The Asia Group consultancy, told The Straits Times. Beijing is making a calibrated move by foregrounding Taiwan ahead of the summit to ensure the issue is treated as a deliverable, rather than

“The wins have given the Modi government and the BJP greater political strength. They are now even stronger favourites for 2029,” Mr Ashok Malik, a partner at The Asia Group, a policy and business advisory group, told The Straits Times.

Speaking to businessline, Shailender Arya, Senior Advisor, The Asia Group, said Operation Sindoor accelerated the drone and counter-drone acquisition programs, leading to the rapid growth of the drone sector in India. Sindoor provided the operational necessity as well as the demand signal. “The legacy of Operation Sindoor is a definitive shift towards kinetic but non-contact operations

The countervailing orders would, at a high level, “place U.S. companies in the position of choosing between compliance with U.S. or Chinese regulatory regimes,” said Han Shen Lin, China managing director for The Asia Group.

“Multinationals must now assume any technology with Chinese DNA – regardless of where it’s incorporated – is subject to Beijing’s veto,” said Han Lin, China country director at consulting firm the Asia Group. “That will weigh upon future investments into China.”

“Beijing effectively drew a bright red line that Chinese AI talent and technology are not for sale to American companies, full stop,” said Han Shen Lin, Shanghai-based China country director at U.S. consultancy firm The Asia Group.

“A lot of Japanese view the Iran conflict as U.S. attention drifting away from their concerns about China and drifting back towards the Middle East,” said Kurt Tong, who served as deputy chief of mission and chargé d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo in the Obama administration, and who regularly talks to senior Japanese

Kurt Tong, managing partner at The Asia Group, was formerly U.S. ambassador for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). He is an adviser to the American Association of the Indo-Pacific. U.S. President Donald Trump’s so-called reciprocal tariffs using an emergency trade statute were eliminated by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Feb. 20. He plans to