💌 Sign up for You May Also Like, my newsletter about e-commerce and China. Below is a selection of my past reporting and essays.
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✨Features & Investigations
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How Shein Beat Amazon at Its Own Game — And Reinvented Fast Fashion (Rest of World)
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The End of Foreign-Language Education (The Atlantic)
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How China’s ‘Crystal Capital’ Cornered the Market on a Western Obsession (WIRED)
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TikTok's Secret Plans for an Online Shopping Empire in the US (Semafor)​
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Shein Workers Have Had It—and They’re Going Public (WIRED)
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✨On China
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Why Everyone Is Suddenly in a ‘Very Chinese Time’ in Their Lives (WIRED)
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Shein Buying Everlane Actually Makes Perfect Sense (WIRED)
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Amazon Suppliers Linked to Forced Labor in China (NBC News)
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How the West Got China’s Social Credit System Wrong (Wired)​
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The Absurdity of Believing China’s Great at Protecting Kids Online (The Atlantic)
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On YouTube, China is Always About to Collapse (Semafor)​
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✨ E-Commerce
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These Trump Socks Went Viral—and a Nightmare on Amazon Began (Wired)
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The Influencers Getting Paid to Promote Designer Knockoffs From China (Wired)
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Chinese Shopping Sites Encroach on Amazon's Turf (Semafor)
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Chinese Fast-Fashion Giant Shein Enters DC's Crosshairs (Semafor)
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Shein Calls for Makeover of US Trade Rule That Critics Used Against It (Semafor)​
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✨ Artificial Intelligence
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The Real Demon Inside ChatGPT (WIRED)
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Startups Are Using ChatGPT to Meet Soaring Demand for Chatbot Therapy (Semafor)
White House Could Force Cloud Companies to Disclose AI Customers (Semafor)
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The New Think Tanks Influencing AI Policy in Washington (Semafor)
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The 26-year-old CEO Who Became Washington’s AI Whisperer (Semafor)
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✨On TikTok​
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A TikTok Whistleblower Got DC’s Attention. Do His Claims Add Up? (Wired)
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Does TikTok Really Pose a Risk to US National Security? (Wired)
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The Sneaky Way TikTok Is Connecting You to Real-Life Friends (Wired)
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Behind Bars, but Still Posting on TikTok (Wired)
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Asian and Middle Eastern Users Tilt TikTok Balance Toward Palestinians (Semafor)
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✨ Essays & Oddities
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How Taiwan Made Cashless Payments Cute (WIRED)
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Mackenzie Bezos and the Myth of the Lone Genius Founder (Wired)
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Why I Love My Teeny-Tiny Knockoff Nokia (Wired)
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At an Outback Steakhouse Franchise, Surveillance Blooms (Wired)
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What Would Really Happen If Russia Attacked Undersea Internet Cables (Wired)
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Why So Many People Make Their Password ‘Dragon’ (Wired)
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