US-China tensions, the increasing importance of Singapore as a doorway to the Asia-Pacific region, growing AI innovation in South Korea and a changing clinical trials landscape in Japan are just some of the recent developments in APAC. 

Trade group’s break from WuXi Apptec allows BIO to reset its lobbying approach under its new CEO but doesn’t negate the business and supply chain disruptions that biopharma would feel from the proposed legislation.

The US Senate moves closer to new legislation that would restrict Chinese "biotech companies of concern” from operating in the US, potentially causing broad and far-reaching impact.

Much of the biopharma and other health-related industries in China were already feeling the chill from ongoing macro-economic and other headwinds this year, which now look set to be complicated further by the added strain of social unrest over strict COVID containment policies. The combination of factors is already prompting some to take steps towards restructuring and divestments to survive.