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“The timing is notable,” said George Chen, partner and chair of digital practice, The Asia Group. “Beijing chose to approve visa’s license just ahead of the APEC Leaders’ Meeting in Shenzhen next month, where Xi [Jinping]...

Ashok Malik, a partner at strategy and business advisory firm The Asia Group, said the latest US restrictions on IT firms are clearly targeted at India. “It will have an impact on the bilateral relationship,” he...

Like Turkey, Pakistan’s position is that “defense of the kingdom, with or without the Mecca pact, is going to happen,” said Uzair Younus, a partner at The Asia Group, a geopolitical consulting firm in Washington, D.C....

“The immediate task for Manus now is proving scale, profitability and regulatory alignment,” said Han Lin, China country director at The Asia Group.

Jennifer Lee, a Washington-based partner at The Asia Group, said she expected the first disbursement to be tied to the Texas project, as it had undergone “substantially more review.” Seoul was likely to take its time...

Han Lin, the China country director at The Asia Group, a strategic advisory firm, said: “The animal list is certainly eye-catching: donkeys, mules, horses, whales, dolphins and dugongs. But I’d read it less as an exotic...

Shailender Arya, senior advisor at strategic advisory firm The Asia Group, said that the launch of the EOS-5 satellite by Isro on 4 September may help India’s private sector. “India’s own private constellation via EO-PPP is...

Despite growing calls to prevent AI development from spiraling out of control, the Trump-Xi summit has produced little substance, as many experts expected. Because of low levels of trust, cooperation between the two superpowers remains limited,...

“The more stable China’s diplomacy with other countries, the more bandwidth they can focus on what are very significant political and economic questions coming ahead,” said Han Lin of The Asia Group.

Lin Han-Shen, China director at US strategic advisory firm The Asia Group, said the two capitals approached the guest list with different aims. For Beijing, a CEO delegation was meant to be a diplomatic deliverable –...

“For all the attention on the hard security, technology and trade issues, that China made room for panda diplomacy was a clever strategy,” said Han Lin, the China managing director at The Asia Group, a Washington-based...

“It’s a high-stakes summit with low expectations but the symbolism matters,” said Han Lin, China Country Director, The Asia Group. “Xi is returning to the White House when both countries need steadier guardrails to what is...