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“With a largely negotiated Phase One deal between the U.S. and India sitting and waiting for approval meant that maybe there was pressure the U. S.—and U.S. industry—felt that if they didn’t announce an agreement there would be a realigning of India’s trade toward the EU,” says Nisha Biswal, a senior advisor at the geopolitical […]

“Beijing wants the yuan to be a serious global currency — not necessarily replace the dollar overnight but to be a strategic counterweight that limits U.S. leverage in a fracturing financial order,” said Han Shen Lin, China Country Director at The Asia Group.

Han Lin, China managing director for the Asia Group, said it was “too difficult” for UK banks to compete domestically for reasons that were “non-political”, including the “cost prohibitive” nature of setting up branches, though he noted that HSBC and Standard Chartered were “much more established” in China due to their association with Hong Kong.

Han Lin, China managing director of The Asia Group, says “from China’s view, the Starmer visit looks like a chance to turn the page on UK-China relations from ideological friction to predictable engagement”. Beijing wants stability more than sentiment — fewer surprises, fewer megaphone politics, and a UK that treats China as an economic partner,

Mr. Campbell is the chairman of the Asia Group and a former deputy secretary of state. President Trump’s second-term approach to China is full of contradictions. One minute, he is threatening tariffs on Beijing and bolstering Taiwan’s military; the next, he’s lavishly praising Chinese President Xi Jinping and easing high-tech trade restrictions. His critics say

“The conclusion of security and defence partnership (SDP) between India and EU provides strategic intent and intimate policy guidance for closer defence industrial cooperation between the Indian and European defence industries. This comes at a crucial, and possibly apt time when India is localising defence production, while Europe, led by Germany, has begun rearmament,” Shailender

In aligning with Komeito, however, the CDPJ has had to cross what used to be a red line by accepting a 2014 reinterpretation of the war-renouncing Constitution that allows Japan the limited use of collective self-defence, in cases where Japan’s survival is threatened. Komeito backed the policy with the LDP during the government of then

Kurt Tong, managing partner of The Asia Group, says President Trump’s threat to impose 100% tariffs on Canadian imports is not an exact number but an attempt to position himself ahead of renegotiations of the United States-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement. He also says that businesses are not de-risking from the US and the the trade

The strategy reframes China as a challenge to be managed and deterred, not defeated, said Mr. Han Lin, China managing director for The Asia Group, a Washington, DC, strategic advisory group. It is “less doctrinally hostile” to China, more focused on deterrence and alliance burden-sharing, and  much more ambiguous about Taiwan and Indo-Pacific force commitments.

TAG China Country Director, Han Lin, commented how China hitting its 2025 growth target was no surprise. “China may be meeting its goal—as it measures GDP – but it’s heavily through policy support, not organic momentum.” Nonetheless, “the economy is less in a crisis than in a difficult transition: away from property and investment, toward