Media Mentions

“Xi is keeping Iran at arm’s length publicly while still maintaining contact privately,” said Han Shen Lin, managing director for China at The Asia Group, a Washington-based strategic-advisory firm. The absence of Xi-Pezeshkian coverage from the state newspaper’s front page reinforces the view that Beijing is “carefully managing optics,” Lin said. China is seeking to […]

“It has absolutely missed the best timing for an IPO,” said Jin Lu, senior vice president of The Asia Group consultancy. “Everyone is watching to see whether there’s still room for growth, and how much room there is. And competition, if anything, has intensified,” he said.

“The Asian country has built a legal mechanism that essentially tells Chinese companies their foreign bankers must comply with U.S. rules, but inside China, Beijing’s law takes precedence,” said Han Shen Lin, China managing director for The Asia Group

“When the U.S. focuses more on how fast and how advanced their AI models are in their laboratories, Chinese tech companies are already making AI solutions to be very practical,” says TAG Partner and Chair of Digital Practice George Chen in an interview with South Korean digital media outlet TheGuru on August 27, 2026.

“You can sell a humanoid robot to a factory and then continue improving it. You cannot put five passengers into an eVTOL and say: We’ll improve it later.” said Han Shen Lin, China managing director for The Asia Group

“Still, even if the U.S. Treasury Department does not take overt measures against big Chinese banks, international banks might start curtailing business with them,” according to Han Lin, the China country director of The Asia Group, an American consulting firm. “Big banks are wary about incurring the wrath of American regulators.“

“On the surface, while the China-Iran relationship may be strategic, China’s access of the U.S. dollar is existential, says Han Lin, China Country Director, The Asia Group.   “It’s not likely the U.S. will unplug China from the U.S. dollar system, however it does provide the U.S. more leverage going into the Trump-Xi summit.”

“Everyone knows that the Taiwan issue is a red line for China. Now, AI is becoming a new red line in US-China relations,” says George Chen, The Asia Group’s partner and chair of digital practice, in an interview with Money Today on August 23, 2026. George also discusses how Beijing could broker renewed Trump-Kim talks,

“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