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“The priority at this point is having the summit take place, having the two of them meet face-to-face,” said Alison Szalwinski, vice president at the Asia Group. “And ensuring that U.S.-China relations are on stable footing....

“What you’ll see is very deliberate warmth – firm handshakes, careful smiles,” said Han Lin, China Country Director, The Asia Group. “A good analogy is their Mar-a-Lago meeting in 2017. It’s an almost theatrical mutual respect...

Kurt M. Campbell is Chairman and Co-Founder of The Asia Group. He served as Deputy Secretary of State and Indo-Pacific Coordinator at the National Security Council during the Biden administration.  

Trump appears to be courting investments and seeking deals, while China hawks are pushing a harder line on Beijing, George Chen, a partner at The Asia Group, a strategic advisory firm, told DealBook. Still, many analysts...

Some in the Trump administration believe “the outcome that matters more than any set of deliverables is stability and space for continued engagement, both to build domestic resilience and to facilitate future deal-making,” said Brett Fetterly,...

(0:0:56) Kurt Campbell, chairman of The Asia Group, says the timing is awkward. “It is remarkable that President Trump is prepared to go to China under these circumstances, but may I also say that it is...

Kurt Campbell, the architect of the US pivot to Asia and former Deputy Secretary of State under Joe Biden, says next week’s summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping is highly unusual and could be politically...

Kelly Magsamen, who was chief of staff to Biden’s defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, says that in normal circumstances, there would be some kind of US military demonstration ahead of the summit, such as a dual carrier...

“It’s not about duration. It’s about a war of wills here and who’s going to blink first. Both countries have a blockade on Hormuz, but the difference between both countries is that the U.S. doesn’t have...

“That Taiwan is the ‘biggest risk’ is deliberate escalatory language designed to test Washington’s threshold,” Mr Han Shen Lin, China managing director for The Asia Group consultancy, told The Straits Times. Beijing is making a calibrated...

“The wins have given the Modi government and the BJP greater political strength. They are now even stronger favourites for 2029,” Mr Ashok Malik, a partner at The Asia Group, a policy and business advisory group,...

Speaking to businessline, Shailender Arya, Senior Advisor, The Asia Group, said Operation Sindoor accelerated the drone and counter-drone acquisition programs, leading to the rapid growth of the drone sector in India. Sindoor provided the operational necessity...