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“This will be a high-risk, high-reward leaders’ meeting,” said Han Shen Lin, China director of global consultancy firm The Asia Group. “Both sides will try to hit the ‘reset’ button” for a relationship rattled by the latest round of tit-for-tat restrictions, he added, while avoiding “any big headline concession.”  The two countries may agree to […]

Asia Group CEO Nirav Patel says President Trump doesn’t want to risk ‘stirring the hornet’s nest’ or causing instability in US-China relations, but also says it’s unlikely either side will make significant changes to appease the other.

On this episode of China Field Notes, host Scott Kennedy speaks with Han Shen Lin, China Managing Director for the Asia Group and Associate Professor of Practice in Finance at NYU Shanghai. Han explains why the original hopes of financial openness were not borne out and what this means for China’s economy and foreign banks.

Live on BBC News, The Asia Group’s Han Lin commented that “Regarding U.S-China tensions, in the immediate term, the US holds significant leverage. However, China is playing a long game and has its own sources of resilience. While the US can dictate the pace and pressure of the conflict in the short term, China is

The latest developments show Modi’s tricky balancing act between the US, India’s biggest export market, and Russia, a longstanding military and strategic partner. India imports about a third of its oil from Russia, and New Delhi has argued that a complete halt in purchases without access to other cheap sources would be unfeasible. “India needs the trade

Politically speaking, the former British colony is hardly different from the Chinese mainland in its intolerance of dissenters and antigovernment speech. But in other ways, it is more like New York than Beijing. The Hong Kong dollar is pegged to the U.S. dollar and convertible with it—China’s renminbi isn’t. Travel between Hong Kong and the

Kurt Tong, managing partner at The Asia Group, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss China tightening export controls on rare-earth metals. “The lack of a clear communication channel and unwillingness of either side to truly relinquish key leverage is leading to these threatened disruptions in the short term. The short term is getting people even more