Media Mentions

In recent years, global trade relationships have shifted substantially, in many ways reversing a decades-long multilateral drive toward more open trade. I know how dizzying these shifts have been from my own experience as a US trade negotiator over the past three decades. It’s too early to tell whether these shifts are a temporary setback or, instead, a terminus for the multilateral trading system, but it’s not too soon to assess how US policies are faring amid these changes.

The innovation arms race won’t be limited to emerging technologies and the semiconductors critical for their performance, according to The Asia Group president Rexon Y. Ryu.

The mini summit will be “a critical means to be able to prevent miscalculation from occurring based on a growing set of challenges between the two militaries and it would be disastrous if the meeting somehow was canceled,” said Nirav Patel, former deputy assistant secretary of State in the Obama administration and currently the CEO of the U.S.-based Asia Group consultancy.

“Pakistan is facing a polycrisis and it is the convergence of political, economic, social, and security crises that makes the current situation so volatile.”

TAG Managing Partner Amb. Kurt Tong says the worst impact of a degradation of U.S.-China relations can be avoided if both parties value “stability and conflict avoidance.”

China’s dominance of the EV supply chain has raised global fears of a new trade war, as tensions between Beijing and Washington intensify over critical minerals.

Financial advisers must be “increasingly nimble, agile and flexible” in the current geopolitical environment and prepared for ongoing disruption while looking for potential investment opportunities arising from structural change, Arthur Sinodinos, Partner and Chair of The Asia Group and former Liberal Minister and Assistant Treasurer said at the Hannemann and Brown Wealth Symposium via video link from Washington D.C.

TAG Partner & Australia Chair Amb. Arthur Sinodinos discusses Prime Minister Albanese’s visit to Washington last week and its impact on the U.S.-Australia relationship.

Arthur Sinodinos, the former Australian ambassador to the U.S. and current partner and chair of the Australia Practice at The Asia Group, says GWEO began because of discussions with the U.S. military that showed that once a war starts in the Indo-Pacific, the U.S. won’t be able to supply Australia with additional munitions as stocks will be rapidly depleted. So Australia needed to find a way to become more independent in munitions production.

India has never been more invested in the West Asian region. As such, how this plays out will have an enormous impact on India’s external strategy. That the US has rekindled its commitment to West Asia would be welcomed, with a prayer that this survives any hypothetical transition in January 2025. On the other hand, fear of a larger regional conflict is a nightmare. Should it occur, it will have its bearing on India’s aspirations.