Media Mentions

“It is not possible to think about China in the context of containment.” That’s TAG Chairman and Co-Founder Kurt Campbell in a wide-ranging interview with the South China Morning Post’s Open Questions series, where he discusses what comes next after the Trump-Xi summit. Among the points he makes: ▪️The U.S. is most effective as a

Ashok Malik, a partner at strategy and business advisory firm The Asia Group, said the latest US restrictions on IT firms are clearly targeted at India. “It will have an impact on the bilateral relationship,” he said. “The trust between the two countries has clearly suffered now.”

Like Turkey, Pakistan’s position is that “defense of the kingdom, with or without the Mecca pact, is going to happen,” said Uzair Younus, a partner at The Asia Group, a geopolitical consulting firm in Washington, D.C. Younus cited sources he had spoken to in Islamabad as saying that Pakistan stepped up its air force, naval,

“The immediate task for Manus now is proving scale, profitability and regulatory alignment,” said Han Lin, China country director at The Asia Group.

Jennifer Lee, a Washington-based partner at The Asia Group, said she expected the first disbursement to be tied to the Texas project, as it had undergone “substantially more review.” Seoul was likely to take its time over due diligence on Alaska LNG, she added. The investment pledge would also support construction of eight nuclear power

Han Lin, the China country director at The Asia Group, a strategic advisory firm, said: “The animal list is certainly eye-catching: donkeys, mules, horses, whales, dolphins and dugongs. But I’d read it less as an exotic trade story than as evidence of how granular tariff codes can be.” Lin said: “Both sides are carving out

Shailender Arya, senior advisor at strategic advisory firm The Asia Group, said that the launch of the EOS-5 satellite by Isro on 4 September may help India’s private sector. “India’s own private constellation via EO-PPP is meant for its own defense-grade usage. Though yet to reach highest fidelity, India’s ability to use its own satellites

Despite growing calls to prevent AI development from spiraling out of control, the Trump-Xi summit has produced little substance, as many experts expected. Because of low levels of trust, cooperation between the two superpowers remains limited, said George Chen, chair of digital practice at The Asia Groupconsultancy. “Beijing continues to believe Washington seeks to contain

“The more stable China’s diplomacy with other countries, the more bandwidth they can focus on what are very significant political and economic questions coming ahead,” said Han Lin of The Asia Group.

Lin Han-Shen, China director at US strategic advisory firm The Asia Group, said the two capitals approached the guest list with different aims.  For Beijing, a CEO delegation was meant to be a diplomatic deliverable – proof that improving ties could translate into commercial access for Chinese firms, he said.  Washington, Lin said, treated attendance