Lauly Li

Taipei, Taiwan

Tech Correspondent, Asia at Financial Times

Tech Correspondent @NikkeiAsia also @FTTechAsia Cover greater China tech industry and hardware supply chain. Views are mine. Tips to [email protected]

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China urges state-backed tech players overseas to counter Trump tariffs

1 week ago | asia.nikkei.com | Cheng Ting-Fang |Lauly Li |Cissy Zhou |Shunsuke Tabeta

TAIPEI/HONG KONG/BEIJING -- China has urged leading state-backed tech companies to expand overseas, particularly in Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, to counter mounting pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff war, Nikkei Asia has learned.
Tariffs push Apple closer to Asia and Alibaba challenges DeepSeek

1 week ago | ft.com | Lauly Li |Cheng Ting-Fang |Zijing Wu |Cissy Zhou

Hello everyone! This is Lauly, sending greetings from Taipei.
Why Trump's tariff turmoil is not pushing Apple closer to the US

2 weeks ago | asia.nikkei.com | Lauly Li |Cheng Ting-Fang

TAIPEI -- When Apple faced the prospect of U.S. tariffs as high as 145% on its Chinese-made devices, its first response was not to rush production home but to quickly double down on Southeast Asia and India.
Stocking up on Nvidia and BYD goes small in Japan

2 weeks ago | ft.com | Cissy Zhou |Cheng Ting-Fang |Lauly Li |Krishn Kaushik |John Reed |Rafe Uddin | +2 more

Hello from Hong Kong, this is Cissy.
TSMC’s new shape and two weeks of tariff trauma

3 weeks ago | ft.com | Cheng Ting-Fang |Harry Dempsey |Lauly Li |Ryohtaroh Satoh

Hi from Taipei, everyone! This is Cheng Ting-Fang, your TechAsia host for this week.
Tech suppliers in turmoil and Foxconn brings EV ambitions to Japan

1 month ago | ft.com | Kenji Kawase |Cheng Ting-Fang |Lauly Li |Yifan Yu |David Keohane |Leo Lewis | +2 more

Hello, this is Kenji. I ended my third stint in Hong Kong last week and returned to Nikkei’s Tokyo newsroom on Monday.
From Apple to Samsung, Trump's tariffs force supply chains to adapt -- fast

1 month ago | asia.nikkei.com | Cheng Ting-Fang |Lauly Li |Yifan Yu

TAIPEI/PALO ALTO, California -- Ever since Donald Trump was elected president back in November, the world's biggest electronics brands had been asking their suppliers in Asia to ramp up production and ship more smartphones, laptops and servers to the U.S.Those efforts, aimed at avoiding expected tariffs when Trump took office, were kicked into a higher -- and more chaotic -- gear last week when the president dropped a bomb on global trade: "reciprocal" tariffs of up to 50% on trading partners.
TSMC’s big US bet and China’s chip tool challenger

1 month ago | ft.com | Lauly Li |Cheng Ting-Fang |Eleanor Olcott |Ryan Mcmorrow |Zijing Wu |Shaun Turton

Hello! This is Lauly, saying hi from the warm weather in Taipei.
TSMC's $165bn U.S. expansion push: 'Inevitable' but risky

1 month ago | asia.nikkei.com | Cheng Ting-Fang |Lauly Li

TAIPEI -- When TSMC Chairman and CEO C.C. Wei stood next to U.S. President Donald Trump early this month and announced the world's biggest chipmaker would be investing an additional $100 billion to build five more advanced chip facilities and an R&D center on American soil, many back home in Taiwan were worried about what it would mean economically and politically for the island.
Taiwan's Lai vows to curb infiltration by 'foreign hostile force' China

2 months ago | asia.nikkei.com | Lauly Li

TAIPEI -- Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te on Thursday said his administration will tighten regulations on trade with and travel to China, as well as on Chinese nationals seeking residency in Taiwan, pushing back against what he described as mounting infiltration by Beijing. The moves and comments mark some of Lai's most significant actions and strongest language against threats from China since he took office last May.