“For the Indian system, the egregious 25 percent tariff is the touchstone,” said Ashok Malik, the India chair at the Asia Group, a Washington-based advisory firm, and a former adviser to the Indian government. “If that goes, we can say that we are back in repair mode.” Mr. Gor’s address, before a large group of […]
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TAG Managing Partner Kurt Tong shares insights on a broad set of recent issues, including the “Donroe Doctrine”, Venezuela, Iran, Japan, Korea, and China’s capacity to react with Yvonne Man and David Ingles live on Bloomberg: The China Show. (Starts at 1:15:00)
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“This strategic pivot to ‘good housing’ is fundamentally about rebalancing the economy – shifting from speculative inventory to quality living,” Lin Han-Shen, China country director at The Asia Group, told CNA. “Restoring household confidence is central. When buyers no longer fear construction halts, some latent demand could unlock,” Lin said, referring to households that had
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Daniel J. Kritenbrink is a partner at The Asia Group. Previously, Kritenbrink served in the United States government as assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs and ambassador to Vietnam. His diplomatic career spans three decades and includes assignments in Japan, China, Kuwait and Washington. As part of our OPEN QUESTIONS series
George Chen, partner at consultancy Asia Group, who also formerly held a senior role at Meta, said that cost blowouts and consumer price inflation would raise the costs of AI projects and prompt a rethink among investors about chasing the AI theme. “Memory chip cost inflation will push up prices for AI groups, lower investors’
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(Starts at 02:05) TAG China Country Director Han Lin shared that “When people think of China, they often imagine a top‑down economy. In fact much of China’s commercial energy is bottom‑up — entrepreneurs reading market signals, testing for demand, and scaling up quickly to seize short‑lived trends.”
In this video, Nikkei Asia’s Shotaro Tani sits down with Rintaro Nishimura, senior associate at the strategic advisory firm The Asia Group, to unpack all that has happened this year, and look ahead to the next.
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“It’s an unexpected role reversal that the I.M.F. — patron saint of fiscal restraint — is nudging China toward a debt-fueled stimulus,” said Han Lin, the China country director for the Asia Group, a Washington consulting firm.
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For the four decades he spent working on Asia policy at the Pentagon, state department and White House, Kurt Campbell dealt with many tough security issues, including a suspected Chinese spy balloon that flew over North America in 2023. But one of the most bizarre security incidents occurred just up the road from the farm
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Han Lin, China country director of the Asia Group, a US consultancy, said he expected Katz to press “quietly and technically, for sharper IMF scrutiny of China’s external imbalances; but a loud, public ‘callout’ is unlikely”. “The IMF’s mandate, governance incentives and China’s weight all push the institution towards calibrated, consensus driven language rather than
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