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In an interview with The Asahi Shimbun (8/1), TAG Managing Director for Japan David Boling says, “because Trump has long argued that yen weakness gives Japan an unfair trade advantage, any push to strengthen the yen...

Recent Chinese AI models are also now compatible with cheaper, locally made processors. “For the money [a Chinese AI company would] spend on an Nvidia chip, they can buy 10 local chips from Huawei or other...

George Chen, partner and chair of digital practice at The Asia Group, said US “closed models”, which include products offered by OpenAI and Anthropic, were too expensive for most consumers in global south countries, which lacked...

Japan’s involvement is part of an effort to bolster its regional energy security, according to Taro Han, a former official at Japan’s trade ministry, who recently joined The Asia Group, a consulting firm. Even with its...

“Election interference allegations strike at the most politically sensitive fault line in US-China relations,” said Han Shen Lin, the China managing director for The Asia Group, a strategic advisory firm. “They reinforce Washington’s bipartisan narrative that...

Conference attendee George Chen, partner and chair of digital practice at The Asia Group, an American strategic advisory firm, said that Beijing has been using the Shanghai AI conference to deliver key messages on AI cooperation,...

“It’s significant at a symbolic level in terms of perhaps ever so slightly but tangibly the US is lightening up on its negativeness about Hong Kong,” said Kurt Tong, a former US consul general to Hong...

“The WAIC has steadily evolved into a policy-oriented forum, with Beijing using it to deliver key messages on AI cooperation, safety and what officials now call ‘AI diplomacy,’” said George Chen, partner and chair of digital...

“Households overwhelmingly favor property, bank deposits, and guaranteed products over venture investing,” said Han Shen Lin, China managing director at The Asia Group, a Washington-based advisory firm.

“Against this backdrop, WAIC has become more than a technology showcase; it is now a geopolitical stage where Beijing seeks to articulate its vision ‌of AI ⁠as both a national priority and a diplomatic instrument,” wrote...