"China’s ruling Communist Party wants the country’s young people to be ambitious, work hard and prepare for adversity. Li Jiajia just wants to win the lottery." Read this great story about the Chinese youth via Shen Lu wsj.com/world/china/am…

China’s dealmaking slump has already hurt Wall Street banks. Now, lawyers are feeling the pain. wsj.com/business/now-l… via The Wall Street Journal w/Elaine Yu

Police watch over book talks, shows have been canceled, and people wonder how far a new national security law will reach into their lives—We looked at how Hong Kong's character is changing bit by bit as a crackdown on dissent marches on. With Selina Cheng wsj.com/world/china/cl…

Honored to be part of the The Wall Street Journal team -- Elaine Yu Rebecca Feng Chun Han Wong 王春翰 Neil Western Patrick Barta -- named as a finalist in the Society of Publishers in Asia The Society of Publishers in Asia #Excellence in Business Reporting category. "Inside China's Crackdown" wsj.com/world/asia/hon…

Internal Binance investigators found that DWF manipulated YGG and at least six other tokens and made over $300 million in wash trades in 2023, company insiders say. Soon after, Binance fired its head investigator. From Angus Berwick and Elaine Yu wsj.com/finance/curren…

Before leaving Hong Kong and fearing arrest, Rowena He did what she felt no historian should have to do: shredding her students' papers & wiping her hard drive. Story by me about a prominent scholar of Tiananmen & political exile now shunned by the city wsj.com/world/china/sh…

Today I was fired from the Wall Street Journal. This is my statement:

Weeks before Zelensky said men from China are fighting for Russia, a tenacious Chinese journalist spoke to one. For NPR, I interviewed Chai Jing (months after I first tried to contact her for another story). npr.org/2025/04/11/g-s…

Exporters in countries like Bangladesh are facing canceled orders and upended livelihoods. “We are one of the poorest countries on God’s earth. What have we done to deserve the wrath of the United States of America?” bloomberg.com/news/features/…

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