President Donald Trump said the US is in talks with China on tariffs, and a deal could be done “over the next three or four weeks”. Mr Trump would not say whether he has spoken directly with Chinese President Xi Jinping, but insisted that China has been in touch since tariffs were imposed. According to […]
For years in U.S. foreign policy circles, discussions of China focused on its growing wealth, power, and ambition and the fear that it would supplant the United States. But a few years ago, the conversation took a sharp turn. Rather than fixating on China’s rise, most analysis began to focus on the country’s stagnation and
TAG Managing Partner, Amb. Kurt Tong interviewed on CNA where he discussed the potential increased tit-for-tat U.S.-China tariff hikes stating, “If the U.S. insists on isolating itself from the rest of the global trading economy – the most important part of which is in Asia… that will lead to slower growth, lost income and job
In his first interview since leaving office, the former US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell tells Christiane Amanpour, “I am struck by how many actors the Trump administration is reaching out against as opposed to bringing on board.”
And that’s causing anxiety among the US’s closest allies in the Indo-Pacific, said Jenny Schuch-Page, managing principal in energy and sustainability with the Washington-based Asia Group. “Even the prospect for a ‘grand bargain’ with China will make countries in South-east Asia wary about how they will fare,” she said.
“Things like cellphones, personal computers, big discretionary items or major expenditures that people have to buy, those things will be harder to replace Chinese-sourced items. So I would expect to see bigger hits in those items just because it’s hard to rebuild a supply chain to replace those,” Ambassador Kurt Tong, an Asia-focused economics expert,
Kurt Tong, former U.S. consul general in Hong Kong and Macau, analyzes the current relationship between the United States and China as trade war intensifies.
“Washington is a seductive city. There is a tendency to amplify and exaggerate its debates and passions, and decide that these absorb the rest of the planet. Most other countries recognise Washington for what it is: capital of a nation with enormous salience. As such, they attempt to understand and adjust to the policy priorities
TAG China Country Director, Han Lin, commented on the potential of a financial war resulting from the U.S.-China tariff war in the German FAZ stating, “As a retaliation tool, a sudden sell off U.S. Treasuries by China is a two-way sword. While it would add pressure on the U.S. and could escalate U.S.-China tensions from
Success in great-power competition requires rigorous and unsentimental net assessment. Yet the American estimation of China has lurched from one extreme to the other. For decades, Americans registered blistering economic growth, dominance of international trade, and growing geopolitical ambition, and anticipated the day when China might overtake a strategically distracted and politically paralyzed United States;
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