Media

Insights

For media inquiries, please contact media@theasiagroup.com. 

Media Categories
Media Mentions
Han in The Guardian: Foie gras, live dolphins and toasters: China and US cut reciprocal tariffs on $30bn each of goods

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...

Media Mentions
Colonel (Ret.) Shailender S. Arya in Mint on India’s surveillance satellite program

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...

Media Mentions
George Chen in CNN International on the growing U.S.-China AI competition

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,...

Media Mentions
Han Lin in Nikkei Asia: Pomp, tariffs and AI: 5 things to know about the Trump-Xi summit

“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.

...
Media Mentions
Han Lin in Channel News Asia: What corporate China’s absence from Trump-Xi state banquet says about US-China business ties

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 –...

Media Mentions
Han Lin in The Straits Times: Pandas are cute but US needs rare earth magnets

“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...

Media Mentions
Han Lin in the BBC: Xi’s Visit to the U.S.

“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...

Media Mentions
Han Lin in Forbes: Trump, Xi Likely Share AI Concerns But With Different Priorities

“Both sides have a mutual interest to show they can manage the other. This is important to Xi because next year he is likely going to take on a fourth term. Until then, Xi has to...

Media Mentions
Han Lin in Bloomberg: Trump and Xi Buy Time on Trade With Neither Able to Afford a Fight

“The summit is producing managed stabilization,” said Han Lin, China country director of The Asia Group, adding that the truce extension fulfilled the low expectations held by both sides entering the gathering. “If Trump and Xi...

Media Mentions
George Chen in CNN Portugal on what to expect from Trump-Xi summit

Com três grandes temas em cima da mesa, aquele que promete dominar o encontro é a tecnologia, em particular os avanços e a segurança da Inteligência Artificial (IA) e aí “não devemos esperar que uma única...

Media Mentions
Amb. Daniel Kritenbrink in CNN on Trump-Xi summit’s initial key takeaways

TAG Partner and Co-Chair of Southeast Asia Practice Amb. Daniel Kritenbrink joined CNN’s The Brief with Jim Sciutto on September 24, 2026, to share his analysis on the initial key takeaways from the Trump-Xi summit in...

Media Mentions
George Chen in AmCham HK e-Magazine: President Xi in Washington — AI, Tariffs and the Search for Stability

When President Xi Jinping arrives in Washington on September 24 for his second summit of the year with US President Donald Trump, the optics will be familiar – red carpets, handshakes, and carefully choreographed images. Yet...

Scroll to Top

You Are Applying For:

Insights

Apply Now