Amb. Kurt Tong, Managing Partner at The Asia Group, sat down with CNBC’s Emily Chan for an interview, in which he explained why China would welcome President Trump to visit Beijing following the recent Geneva talks. There would still be a lot of “bumps in the road” before the two leaders can eventually meet in person, […]
TAG Partner Amb. Dan Kritenbrink spoke at Caixin’s China Conference in London, where he discussed the upcoming U.S.-China trade talks and the need for both sides to avoid public posturing.
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TAG Managing Director & Co-Chair of Digital Practice, George Chen, spoke to the South China Morning Post on U.S.-China AI competition stating, “even though China’s AI technology may not be world-leading yet, the country’s massive domestic market and the rapid adoption of AI applications among ordinary consumers could start to make a difference in the
Think of the US-China contest as geopolitics on a chessboard, but not the game of kings and pawns. Rather, consider the Asian strategy game called weiqi in Chinese. The US started the 21st century with considerable advantage, but with high tariffs, Washington has weakened its position, given up turf on its weiqi board, and taken
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 a sharp turn. Rather than fixating on China’s rise, most analysis began to focus on the country’s stagnation and
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 – the most important part of which is in Asia… that will lead to slower growth, lost income and job
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 make countries in South-east Asia wary about how they will fare,” she said.
“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 just because it’s hard to rebuild a supply chain to replace those,” Ambassador Kurt Tong, an Asia-focused economics expert,
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 growing geopolitical ambition, and anticipated the day when China might overtake a strategically distracted and politically paralyzed United States;
Key Takeaways: The Trump Administration has announced that an additional 50 percent tariff will be added on top of the 34 percent tariff on Chinese goods that is set to go into effect at 12:01 AM on April 9. It is now clear that the United States and China have entered a period that
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