Essays/News
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Taiwan Reunification at APEC 2026: Let Hong Kong Go First
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On September 9, a reporter from the People’s Daily asked the spokesman of Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office about an associate professor in Changhua. Li Ci-ze,…
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Hong Kong’s airport is becoming a relay station, and Washington is watching the relay
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Hong Kong’s exports just logged their second-best month on record, yet its airport shipped fewer export tonnes than a year ago. The growth is in…
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My AI Intern Built a Tool. He Would Like You to Know He Built It.
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Work in Progress This essay is being revised. Please check back soon.
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C.H. Robinson’s Carrier of the Year Problem
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On September 17, 2025, C.H. Robinson published its Carrier of the Year winners. In the category for fleets of more than 1,000 trucks, the list…
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Want to Stop a Trump Statue in Adams? It’ll Cost You Ten Dollars.
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The boiler in the basement of Turn Hall in Adams, Massachusetts, was cast in Westfield and installed in 1902. The members call it the Beast.…
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The Taxi Hit Her. Hong Kong Put Her on Trial for 91 Days.
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On the afternoon of April 25, 2016, a Nepali woman named Thapa Kamala was crossing Tai Tam Road in Stanley when a taxi hit her.…
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Warhol Promised Everyone 15 Minutes of Fame. The Algorithm Cut It to 15 Seconds, and Now the AIs Want a Turn.
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My fifteen seconds arrived one morning in August, on Substack. Stephen Roach, the former Morgan Stanley Asia chairman, had written that Hong Kong’s old self…
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Hong Kong Gave the Blind a Remote for the Traffic Lights. I Bought AirPods.
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The ticking starts before I can see the crossing at the traffic lights. Tock. Tock. Tock. It’s a slow, patient knock, like someone at the…
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Adams Has a Dead Boiler and a Lonely McKinley. I Have $25,000.
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Turn Hall in Adams, Massachusetts, has a boiler that the members call the Beast. It was cast in Westfield and has heated the building since…