Media Insights For media inquiries, please contact media@theasiagroup.com. Media Categories All Media Grouped Post Newsletter Press Releases Media Mentions Commentary Podcasts Press Releases Newsletter Media Mentions Commentary Podcasts All Media Media Mentions Han Lin interviewed by BBC on PM Starmer’s Beijing visit BBC | January 29, 2026 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... Media Mentions Kurt Campbell’s op-ed on U.S.-China relations featured in The New York Times The New York Times | January 28, 2026 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... Media Mentions Shailender Arya in The Hindu Business Line: ‘The conclusion of security and defence partnership between India and EU provides strategic intent and intimate policy guidance for closer defence industrial cooperation between the Indian and European defence industries’ Business Line | January 27, 2026 “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,... Commentary Front Row with George Chen: Davos Declared the Death of “Old World,” But Here is a Glimpse of the “New World” January 27, 2026 “The old world is gone, clearly. But what is the new world? We don’t know yet,” said Zhu Min, a well-respected Chinese economist and former deputy managing director at the International Monetary Fund. Zhu made the... Media Mentions Rintaro Nishimura quoted in The Straits Times on Japan’s centrist party The Straits Times | January 27, 2026 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,... Media Mentions Kurt Tong interviewed by CNBC’s Emily Tan on Trump’s Canada tariff threat ahead of USMCA renegotiation CNBC | January 26, 2026 Kurt Tong, managing partner of The Asia Group, says President Trump’s threat to impose 100% tariffs on Canadian imports is not an exact number but an attempt to position himself ahead of renegotiations of the United... Media Mentions Han Lin comments on U.S. national defense strategy in The Straits Times: ‘It is a cocktail that regional leaders will find both pragmatic and unsettling’ The Straits Times | January 25, 2026 The strategy reframes China as a challenge to be managed and deterred, not defeated, said Mr. Han Lin, China managing director for The Asia Group, a Washington, DC, strategic advisory group. It is “less doctrinally hostile”... Commentary Front Row with Basant Sanghera: Cautious Calibration And Strategic Suspicion Will Mark India-China Relations In 2026 January 23, 2026 As winter snows begin to melt along the Himalayas this spring, Indian and Chinese troops will once again start actively patrolling their respective positions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) — the 2500-mile disputed boundary... Media Mentions Han Lin joins the BBC in interpreting China’s year-end announcement of reaching its GDP growth target of ‘around 5 percent’ BBC | January 23, 2026 TAG China Country Director, Han Lin, commented how China hitting its 2025 growth target was no surprise. “China may be meeting its goal—as it measures GDP – but it’s heavily through policy support, not organic momentum.”... Media Mentions Kurt Tong interviewed by Nikkei Asia on Taiwan-U.S. tariff deal: ‘The Taiwan side did a fine job of negotiating under difficult circumstances’ Nikkei Asia | January 22, 2026 Kurt Tong, managing partner at Washington-based consultancy The Asia Group, expects Taiwan to expand its capacity and diversify into different aspects of the international supply chain. “The new part is the loan guarantee facility that the... Newsletter Introducing Kurt Campbell’s Already Tomorrow January 21, 2026 I visited Asia for the first time as a young naval officer in the late 1980s. There on the joint base in Yokosuka, Japan, I experienced a vivid sense of how the past and... Commentary Front Row with Mira Rapp-Hooper: What Comes Next? The Shifts in America’s Asia Policy January 20, 2026 It is entirely possible that 2026 will be the most consequential year in American Asia policy in recent decades. President Donald Trump’s planned April trip to Beijing and subsequent meetings with Xi Jinping will attempt... Previous Page1 … Page20 Page21 Page22 Page23 Page24 … Page81 Next
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Front Row with George Chen: Davos Declared the Death of “Old World,” But Here is a Glimpse of the “New World”
“The old world is gone, clearly. But what is the new world? We don’t know yet,” said Zhu Min, a well-respected Chinese economist and former deputy managing director at the International Monetary Fund. Zhu made the...