SNS: Asia Letter, Q3 2020: A New Indo-Pacific Starts to Take Shape

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Vol. 25 Issue 21

SNS: Asia Letter, Q3 2020: A New Indo-Pacific Starts to Take Shape

• Rush Hour Returns to Tokyo
• A New Indo-Pacific
• India-Australia Partnership
• Duterte Reconsiders Expulsion of American Troops…
• …and Sides with Vietnam
• Vietnam Ratifies Trade Pact with EU
• Japan-UK Free-Trade Deal
• UK Looking at NEC and Samsung to Replace Huawei
• European Bureaucrats Seek a More Robust China Strategy
• VW Ramps Up EVs in China
• Germans Return to China
• New Freight Train Links China & the Netherlands
• Email Exchange
• Japan-India Tractor Partnership
• A Beautiful Sight
• Hong Kong Prepares to Cash In
• No Anti-China Jihad
• About Scott Foster

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Publisher’s Note: As we have come to expect, Scott Foster has again captured the early winds of change in Asia, this time as its neighbors shift partially away from China. The free-trade pacts between European countries and free Asian countries is exciting, and new, and worth taking note of.

Almost overnight (as in, since COVID-19 began), we are seeing a new chill in relations between ASEAN countries and China, even as business begins to pick up.

For members interested in Asian and Pacific trading partners – and in how Germany and the UK are taking different paths – this week’s issue is exactly what you’ll need to read. My thanks to Scott, as always. Onward – mra