My AI Intern Built a Tool. He Would Like You to Know He Built It.

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Adam Clermont

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September 30, 2026

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Books by Adam Clermont

Hong Kong Belongs to Hongkongers

A Story of Identity, Resistance, and the Search for Home

A clear-eyed reckoning with how a city came to be misunderstood, instrumentalized, and torn apart by forces far beyond its control. Written by an American who chose Hong Kong as his home.

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Amazon #1 New Release. Mentioned in China Daily.

The Wound That Never Closed

Taiwan, China and the End of Strategic Ambiguity

For more than seventy years, we have pretended the Taiwan question can be managed indefinitely through ambiguity, arms sales, and diplomatic wordplay. That assumption is false.

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Keep the heat on in Adams, Massachusetts

If you've read this far and found what I've written helpful, I have one small ask. The Adams Turners, a 139-year-old club in my Massachusetts hometown, will close for good this winter unless they replace a boiler installed in 1902. I don't charge for my writing and I rarely ask for anything, but five or ten dollars would help keep the lights and the heat on for a town that has already lost most of what it had.

Give $5, $10 or $88 to the Adams Turners

Donations go through GoFundMe · Adams Turners, Adams, Massachusetts

Adam Clermont on The Loadstar

Making sense of the supply chain

I write for The Loadstar, the logistics industry's news and analysis site, on the stories that move cargo: rail mergers, port deals, export controls, cyberattacks and the court cases that land on shippers and forwarders.

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The Escalator

Taiwan Reunification at APEC 2026: Let Hong Kong Go First

Hong Kong’s airport is becoming a relay station, and Washington is watching the relay