Media Mentions

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.”

Banks and technology companies have not yet made plans to leave Hong Kong, said George Chen, Hong Kong-based managing director for The Asia Group, a Washington-headquartered business and policy consultancy. After all, many of them operate in other Chinese cities. But some companies are internally reviewing whether certain sensitive roles, such as those handling user

“Xi Jinping hosted himself,” bucking the tradition of meetings hosted by his second-in-command, says Kurt Tong, the former U.S. envoy to Hong Kong.

Han Shen Lin, China country director at The Asia Group, a Washington-based consultancy, said: “Yellen’s forthcoming visit signals continued commitment for substantive US-China collaboration at the working levels –where it matters the most to multinationals, which depend on the government for clarity on policy guardrails.”