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While Wall Street is celebrating the world’s first trillion‑dollar IPO SpaceX and U.S. investors continue to pile into AI stocks, Beijing is taking a very different approach. Now China’s top official for stock market is planning...

“Weak retail spending is significant because consumer spending is one of the clearest measures of confidence in the economy,” said Han Lin, China Country Director, The Asia Group. “This is the first time we’ve seen spending...

“The restrictions reflect a broader trend among American technology and A.I. companies, many of which have become increasingly reluctant to accept Chinese investment, driven by concerns over national security, intellectual property protection and data governance,” said...

“China and North Korea remain formal treaty allies under a 1961 mutual defense agreement,” said Han Lin, China Country Director, The Asia Group. “That doesn’t mean Beijing supports everything Pyongyang does, but it does mean China...

“The message of Xi’s visit is that China remains North Korea’s most important partner, but partnership comes with expectations,” said Han Lin, China Country Director of The Asia Group, during an interview with BBC News on...

The expanded list underscores “how national security concerns are increasingly shaping economic policy” in Washington, Han Shen Lin, China country director at Asia Group, told CNBC’s “The China Connection” on Tuesday. “Even as Washington and Beijing...

“The new rules are “largely designed to prevent Chinese firms from divesting strategic assets to foreign ⁠parties, not to stop them from acquiring them in the first place,” said Han Shen Lin, China country director at...

Kurt Tong, a former U.S. diplomat in Japan and managing partner at the Asia Group, said the idea of Japan investing $550 billion over the next three years was “aspirational,” noting that, since 1980, Japan’s total...