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 TAG Managing Partner Amb. Kurt Tong appeared on Channel News Asia to Discuss a Potential End to Tit-for-Tat Tariffs Between the United States and China CNA | April 18, 2025 President Donald Trump said the US is in talks with China on tariffs, and a deal could be done “over the next three or four weeks”. Mr Trump would not say whether he has spoken directly... Media Mentions TAG Chairman Dr. Kurt Campbell appeared on the Foreign Affairs Podcast to Discuss Why the U.S. Should Not Underestimate China Foreign Affairs | April 18, 2025 For years in U.S. foreign policy circles, discussions of China focused on its growing wealth, power, and ambition and the fear that it would supplant the United States. But a few years ago, the conversation took... Media Mentions TAG Managing Partner Amb. Kurt Tong Interviewed on CNA about Potential for Tit-for-Tat U.S.-China Tariff Hikes CNA | April 18, 2025 TAG Managing Partner, Amb. Kurt Tong interviewed on CNA where he discussed the potential increased tit-for-tat U.S.-China tariff hikes stating, “If the U.S. insists on isolating itself from the rest of the global trading economy –... Commentary Beijing Bides its Time on Tariff Talks April 18, 2025 Key Takeaways: The likelihood of a meeting between Trump and Xi – considered a key event to get trade negotiations started – remains low in the near term. Trump has repeatedly expressed interest in meeting with... Media Mentions TAG Chairman The Hon. Dr. Kurt Campbell appeared on CNN’s Amanpour to discuss the U.S.-China Tit-for-Tat Escalation and Other Developments CNN | April 17, 2025 In his first interview since leaving office, the former US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell tells Christiane Amanpour, “I am struck by how many actors the Trump administration is reaching out against as opposed to... Media Mentions TAG Managing Principal Jennifer Schuch-Page spoke to The Guardian on Southeast Asian perspectives towards U.S.-China negotiations The Guardian | April 16, 2025 And that’s causing anxiety among the US’s closest allies in the Indo-Pacific, said Jenny Schuch-Page, managing principal in energy and sustainability with the Washington-based Asia Group. “Even the prospect for a ‘grand bargain’ with China will... Media Mentions TAG Managing Partner Amb. Kurt Tong Spoke to Fox Business on the Sectors Likely to be Most Hit by Trump’s Tariffs FOX Business | April 16, 2025 “Things like cellphones, personal computers, big discretionary items or major expenditures that people have to buy, those things will be harder to replace Chinese-sourced items. So I would expect to see bigger hits in those items... Media Mentions TAG Managing Partner Amb. Kurt Tong Discusses U.S.-China tariff Exchanges on BNN Bloomberg BNN Bloomberg | April 14, 2025 Kurt Tong, former U.S. consul general in Hong Kong and Macau, analyzes the current relationship between the United States and China as trade war intensifies.... Media Mentions TAG India Chairman Ashok Malik Writes on how India can Navigate Volatility in Trump’s Trade Policy April 14, 2025 “Washington is a seductive city. There is a tendency to amplify and exaggerate its debates and passions, and decide that these absorb the rest of the planet. Most other countries recognise Washington for what it is:... Commentary Retaliation and Negotiation, Asia Responds to Tariff Implementation April 11, 2025 Key Takeaways Retaliation: China stands unique among Indo-Pacific countries with the highest tariff rate of 145 percent while others have been paused at 10 percent for 90 days. China is also the only country in the... Media Mentions TAG China Country Director, Han Lin, Comments in the German FAZ About the Potential of a Financial War Resulting from the U.S.-China Tariff War Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung | April 11, 2025 TAG China Country Director, Han Lin, commented on the potential of a financial war resulting from the U.S.-China tariff war in the German FAZ stating, “As a retaliation tool, a sudden sell off U.S. Treasuries by... Media Mentions TAG Chairman Dr. Kurt Campbell Writes in Foreign Affairs on why the U.S. Needs a New China Strategy Foreign Affairs | April 10, 2025 Success in great-power competition requires rigorous and unsentimental net assessment. Yet the American estimation of China has lurched from one extreme to the other. For decades, Americans registered blistering economic growth, dominance of international trade, and... Previous Page1 … Page37 Page38 Page39 Page40 Page41 … Page81 Next
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Beijing Bides its Time on Tariff Talks
Key Takeaways: The likelihood of a meeting between Trump and Xi – considered a key event to get trade negotiations started – remains low in the near term. Trump has repeatedly expressed interest in meeting with...