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The announcements were greeted, initially at least, with a collective sigh of relief. Stocks in Asia jumped on Tuesday with shares in India rising nearly 3 percent. “This removes an enormous irritant on the U.S.-India side and opens the path for perhaps more cooperation and convergence,” said Nisha Biswal, a partner at the Asia Group […]

Former US Assistant Secretary of State Nisha Biswal tells Bloomberg’s Haslinda Amin why a trade deal between Washington and Delhi is finally within reach. (Source: Bloomberg)

President Donald Trump has said he would roll back punitive tariffs on India in return for an agreement that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would stop buying Russian oil. Basant Sanghera of The Asia Group breaks down what we know about the agreement so far. (Source: Bloomberg)

“With a largely negotiated Phase One deal between the U.S. and India sitting and waiting for approval meant that maybe there was pressure the U. S.—and U.S. industry—felt that if they didn’t announce an agreement there would be a realigning of India’s trade toward the EU,” says Nisha Biswal, a senior advisor at the geopolitical

“Beijing wants the yuan to be a serious global currency — not necessarily replace the dollar overnight but to be a strategic counterweight that limits U.S. leverage in a fracturing financial order,” said Han Shen Lin, China Country Director at The Asia Group.

Han Lin, China managing director for the Asia Group, said it was “too difficult” for UK banks to compete domestically for reasons that were “non-political”, including the “cost prohibitive” nature of setting up branches, though he noted that HSBC and Standard Chartered were “much more established” in China due to their association with Hong Kong.

Han Lin, China managing director of The Asia Group, says “from China’s view, the Starmer visit looks like a chance to turn the page on UK-China relations from ideological friction to predictable engagement”. Beijing wants stability more than sentiment — fewer surprises, fewer megaphone politics, and a UK that treats China as an economic partner,

Mr. Campbell is the chairman of the Asia Group and a former deputy secretary of state. President Trump’s second-term approach to China is full of contradictions. One minute, he is threatening tariffs on Beijing and bolstering Taiwan’s military; the next, he’s lavishly praising Chinese President Xi Jinping and easing high-tech trade restrictions. His critics say

“The conclusion of security and defence partnership (SDP) between India and EU provides strategic intent and intimate policy guidance for closer defence industrial cooperation between the Indian and European defence industries. This comes at a crucial, and possibly apt time when India is localising defence production, while Europe, led by Germany, has begun rearmament,” Shailender

In aligning with Komeito, however, the CDPJ has had to cross what used to be a red line by accepting a 2014 reinterpretation of the war-renouncing Constitution that allows Japan the limited use of collective self-defence, in cases where Japan’s survival is threatened. Komeito backed the policy with the LDP during the government of then