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Details of US-China trade deal is what will matter, says former US ambassador. Daniel Kritenbrink of The Asia Group, and former U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam, says U.S.-China competition is likely to intensify, though recent dialogue between the two nations is a positive sign. He also weighs in on China’s leverage in rare earths leverage and […]

TAG China Country Director Han Lin noted, “The move would set expectations for another 10 per cent tariff cut at the next Trump-Xi meeting.”

“Any deal is more tactical truce than game-changer,” Han Lin, the Shanghai-based managing director of consulting firm The Asia Group, says. “So while we can expect transactional headline-making wins – soybean sales, fentanyl tariff cuts – the rivalry’s structural fault lines remain intact.

In the United States, bipartisan consensus is painfully hard to achieve—except on the issue of China. Even as American political polarization has intensified over the last eight years, both Republicans and Democrats have agreed that an increasingly powerful Beijing poses an economic, technological, and security threat to Washington and its close allies.

Denmark, a partner at The Asia Group who leads its Australia practice, said in Trump’s first term “we saw the National Security Strategy (and) National Defence Strategy talking about competition with China, right? And he had a phone call with the President of Taiwan before his first inauguration.” “And now President Trump is much more in an

The report, jointly prepared by SIDM — the apex body of the Indian defence industry — and The Asia Group (TAG), was released by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday. Shailender Arya, Senior Advisor at The Asia Group, who co-authored the report, emphasised the need for a targeted export strategy.

Shailender Arya, Senior Advisor at The Asia Group, who co-authored the SIDM report, emphasized the need for a targeted export strategy. “India must explore new geographies aligned with our cost advantages, backed by a physical presence and in-country after-sales support teams,” Arya told BusinessLine.

India, meanwhile, has until now resisted Trump’s direct pressure to stop buying Russian oil, in part because it wants Moscow to stay neutral if China-India tensions flare up again. With the new US sanctions in place, though, it could be a different story. “The sanctions on the two largest Russian oil firms have certainly changed the

Trump meets Japan’s new PM Takaichi on his Asia trip. TAG Partner Dan Kritenberg observed: “I think it’s very important for President Trump to be visiting Japan on his first trip to Asia. Japan, of course, is America’s most important ally in the region, if not the world. I think his personal relationship with the

TAG China Managing Director Han Lin noted, “We’ll hear more about ‘New Productive Forces’ signifying a full-throttle push by China into artificial intelligence, quantum computing, biotech, and other frontier technologies. The goal is to build secure, domestic supply chains insulated from US pressure.”