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Han Shen Lin, China country director at The Asia Group noted: “The recent invocation of the Ministry of Commerce’s blocking rules – measures allowing the government to instruct firms not to abide by the terms of...

“The Chinese are acutely aware that this is a major concern for the Americans, and as a result, it’s a substantial source of leverage for Beijing,” said Evan Medeiros, from the Asia Group, and a former...

“I think one of the big things that China watches is our ability to work closely with other countries,” said Dr. Kurt Campbell, who was deputy secretary of state under former President Joe Biden. “And I...

“The extent to which Iran is a dominant theme at this summit will be key to seeing what concrete results and agreements are reached,” explains Brett Fetterly of the consultancy The Asia Group (TAG). The face-to-face...

TAG Associate Satya Sahu joins the Takshashila Institution’s “All Things Policy” podcast, discussing DeepSeek’s V4 model, China’s push to build AI capabilities on homegrown Huawei Ascend 950 and Cambricon chips without NVIDIA hardware, and what these...

The defence application of AI are immense. Almost everything will change – surveillance & reconnaissance, targeting, command and control, electronic warfare, and logistics. By monitoring fuel levels, equipment wear and tear, and supply chain vulnerabilities in...

“China enters the summit with genuine leverage, but also genuine concern,” said Han Lin, China Country Director of The Asia Group. For example, “the property sector crisis has hollowed out household wealth, and youth unemployment remains...

Han Lin, China Country Director of The Asia Group, noted that “the very fact that both sides are engaging with each other is itself considered positive and helps to add a level of predictability, which lies...

“It will be difficult to get the Chinese deeply involved under any circumstances,” said Kurt Campbell, a former deputy secretary of state during President Joe Biden’s Democratic administration and chair of The Asia Group. “They will...

Chips – along with Taiwan, the Iran war and other contentious issues – “will be managed, not resolved” at the meeting, said Han Shen Lin, China managing director for The Asia Group.

“China enters this summit with genuine leverage but also genuine urgency,” Han Lin, China country director at Washington-based consultancy The Asia Group, told AFP.

“The American collective psyche – with the exception of President Trump and a few business people – appears to have decided that there’s something inherently threatening about Chinese investment,” says Kurt Tong, a former US consul...