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OpinionAsia is now buying America and nobody is talking about it<br>Scale of the reversal in M&A flows deserves to be treated as a structural shift

Chris ChenJune 3, 2026 05:05 JST

The world is buying America. The story that has not yet been told is who in Asia is doing the buying, and what it means for everyone else. © Reuters

Chris Chen is the founder of Future 500, a Singapore-based startup accelerator.

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