Media Mentions

While China leads the world in supplying green tech, it is also the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions. Observers question whether it can fill the vacuum currently developing around leadership of the fight against climate change against a broader backdrop of deepening tensions between China and the U.S. over trade and security. “There’s a difference […]

Mira Rapp-Hooper, a former Biden administration official, warned that Trump’s use of the term will likely have “provoked significant anxiety in allied capitals, where allies fear that the Trump administration will cut deals with China that may leave them at a disadvantage.”

Kurt Campbell of The Asia Group cautions that it is against America’s strategic interest to sell its highest-end chips to China. He summarizes Trump and Xi’s meeting at the sidelines of the APEC summit, and Trump’s key concerns. He also evaluates America’s joint cooperation with its allies including South Korea, Japan and Australia, in the

Colonel Shailender Arya, senior advisor at TAG India, authors “From Factory to Frontline: Great Expectations in Indian Defence Exports”. India’s defence manufacturing sector, driven by Make in India, is poised for global expansion. With rising production and exports, the challenge lies in boosting R&D, after-sales support, and international standards. Strong government backing, innovation, and strategic

Jennifer Schuch-Page, the firm’s managing principal, told This Week in Asia that while nuclear power features in several Asean members’ energy transition plans, challenges run the gamut from licensing and financing to supply chains, waste management and liability. Still, “public opinions on nuclear seem to be changing in the region,” she said. “Seeing advanced nuclear

TAG China Country Director Han Lin noted, “It has control over “foundational technologies” such as chips, its giant consumer market, the dollar’s status as the reserve currency and its network of allied nations, though this pre-eminence was “a bit frayed”. But China was “playing a long game”, he said, using its domestic market as a buffer

TAG China Country Director Han Lin noted, “He’s forcing the room to focus on US leverage amid the smiles. If it lands a trade win, it’s genius; if it poisons the well, I guess we’re in for frostier summits ahead.”

TAG China Country Director Han Lin noted, “Yet though the core issues of the U.S.-China rivalry – such as technology controls, supply chain tensions, and security frictions – remain unresolved, even a temporary truce is better than an uncontrolled trade war,” he said. “It maintains momentum for additional Trump-Xi summits, giving both sides time to

Szalwinski from The Asia Group said that countries have been hedging for some time by “doubling down on smaller, results-oriented ‘minilateral’ arrangements, oftentimes oriented around more narrow or tangible shared interests.”

TAG China Country Director Han Lin shared that “Beijing’s efforts to curb exports of fentanyl precursors, long unrecognized by Washington, are finally being acknowledged.” Trump and Beijing also confirmed that China agreed to pause recently announced export controls on its valuable rare earths minerals for one year.