Media Mentions

“Hui Ka Yan, founder of Evergrande, was the archetype of China’s 2000s–2010s Gilded Age tycoon: enormous corporate leverage alongside enormous personal wealth, political access, trophy assets, philanthropy and prestige projects,” said Han Lin, China Country Director, The Asia Group. “He became such a politically potent symbol in China: the image of a developer living extraordinarily […]

“Countries joining Pax Silica should prepare for Washington’s red lines,” says George Chen, TAG Partner and Chair of Digital Practice, in an interview with Norwegian daily news paper Klassekampen on August 19, 2026. George discusses the growing U.S.-China competition on AI and how Washington is now setting “red lines” for members of Pax Silica to

“Wang arrives at an unusually favorable moment for Beijing: Washington is signaling flexibility toward Pyongyang while simultaneously creating uncertainty in Seoul,” said Han Lin, China country director at The Asia Group.  “China can use that gap to bolster diplomatic influence,” he said, adding that South Korea’s technology and supply chains also give Beijing a strong

George Chen of The Asia Group said while the U.S.-China competition has spurred AI innovation, both sides should pursue “co-opetition” by cooperating on critical issues such as AI safety. He also said a full U.S. ban on Chinese AI models risks crossing Beijing’s red line and could provoke Beijing’s retaliation against major U.S. tech companies.

US President Trump imposed new tariffs this summer. Based on Section 301 of the Trade Act, he imposed high tariffs of 10% or 12.5% ​​on imports from 60 trading partners and regions, including Japan. However, the bigger focus is not on the impact these tariffs will have on the remainder of Trump’s term, but rather

It would be a mistake for observers to view strengthening India-Japan cooperation as a sign of weakening U.S.-Japan cooperation. It would be equally unwise to evaluate the present value and future trajectory of Japan’s bilateral ties with India through a side-by-side comparison of investment pledges into the world’s largest economy; Japan’s history of massive foreign

“If the US is going to ban Chinese models on the grounds of national security, it will not affect just American companies (using the tech),” said George Chen, the Hong Kong-based chair of digital practice at The Asia Group consultancy. “You’re basically talking about the US trying to ban Chinese AI models for business practice

“This intervention brings things back into alignment closer to where most people think that the exchange rate should be over the long term,” says Amb. Kurt Tong, TAG managing partner and former U.S. deputy treasury attaché in Tokyo, in an interview with CNN International’s Newsroom with Rosemary Church (8/4) on Japan-U.S. joint currency intervention. “This

“A lot of countries are looking at the competition between US and China, and they don’t want to take a side right now because the competition’s just starting,” said George Chen, partner and Digital Practice chair at The Asia Group. Both President Donald Trump and his counterpart Xi Jinping have made AI leadership a national

In an interview with The Asahi Shimbun (8/1), TAG Managing Director for Japan David Boling says, “because Trump has long argued that yen weakness gives Japan an unfair trade advantage, any push to strengthen the yen also fits squarely with Trump’s trade policy agenda.”