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Hello and welcome to Business Daily on the BBC World Service. I'm World Bain.

Asia is home to many of the fastest growing economies and companies in the world,

with the pace of change on the business landscape as a result, shifting like nowhere else on

the planet. So today, in the latest of our look ahead to what 2026 might have in store for our

companies and economies, we're looking at the challenges and opportunities across Asia.

Alibaba, Huawei, Samsung, Deepseek, SoftBank, Sony, Tata, the list goes on.

Many of the world's biggest companies and the fastest growing ones, too, call Asia Home.

And after a year of geopolitical shocks through 2025, driven by massive trade uncertainties,

in particular because of tariffs, of course, where do the

big players, both companies and countries sit as we enter 2026 and have Asian economies ridden out

that storm? To look at that and much more, we're joined from Singapore by our Asia business

correspondent, Surinjana Tuari, and from Delhi by the BBC's India

business correspondent, Arunjay Mukherjee. If there was one word, we were joking about this in the

first one of these of our look back and look ahead. And it seems almost impossible to look

ahead to 26 without looking back. Then if there was one word that dominated all our coverage on our

business programs, it was tariffs. Give us the sweep with your role

covering the entire kind of region. Where are we at the end of this kind of bonkers year,

even by recent standards when it's come to tariffs? Yeah, it's really the stuff of nightmares

for people like you and me will, who cover tariffs and trade wars. Every day, you know, there was phases in the last year where I was waking up and it was

like another tariff, another sector that's being tariff.

How is that going to impact the economies and the companies that I cover?

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