Media Mentions

George Chen, co-chair of digital practice at Washington-based consultancy The Asia Group, said the government needed to minimise the so-called chilling effect in enforcing the order, otherwise outsiders might form the perception the city was increasingly restricting internet freedoms.

For former top US diplomat in Hong Kong Kurt Tong, that (to improve U.S.-China relations) included top-level meetings between the two powers’ presidents, greater cooperation in joint projects with a common goal – such as the development of artificial intelligence – and more private sector collaboration.

“It is not a desirable situation from the perspective of free internet and free speech,” said George Chen, co-chair of digital practice at the Asia Group, a Washington DC-based business policy consultancy. He is also former head of public policy for Greater China at Meta.  

Amb. Kurt Tong, Managing Partner at The Asia Group, joined CNBC’s Emily Chan Tan for a wide-ranging discussion on key policy matters including new U.S. tariffs on China, the Taiwan inauguration, and Hong Kong issues.

As the BIOSECURE Act draft legislation winds its way through Congress, multinational pharmaceutical companies are re-examining their global R&D footprints and manufacturing supply chains. TAG VPs Gopal Nadadur and Sam Ide explain today in their Nikkei Asia op-ed that India still has some ways to go in offering itself as a true alternative destination to

TAG’s India practice helped organize the first-ever Jakarta Futures Forum (JFF) from May 2-3, together with ORF India and the Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia (FPCI).

Han Lin, comments on the BBC panel that given the pressures for economic growth, “China’s focus on scaling manufacturing capacity and exports won’t change anytime soon.”

Join Ashley J. Tellis, the Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment, for a conversation with Alyssa Ayres, dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs and professor of history and international affairs at George Washington University, and Ashok Malik, a partner at The Asia Group and Chair of

“There will be a big push in manufacturing, with more PLIs,” said Ashok Malik, a partner at The Asia Group and head of its India practice. “I am also expecting a push against Chinese dumping and the rationalisation of duties on components to help global value chains.”

Han Shen Lin, in a BBC interview, commented that “Despite China’s denial of Secretary Yellen’s “overcapacity” concerns, China may have little choice but to scale up production capacity and exports to boost GDP growth.”