Nicholas Gordon

Hong Kong

Editor at Fortune

Host at Asian Review of Books Podcast

Editor, @FortuneMagazine. Also host of @BookReviewsAsia podcast. Based in Hong Kong.

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The U.S. may be more dependent on trade with Asia than President Trump realizes

1 week ago | fortune.com | Nicholas Gordon
China has options: The U.S. may be more dependent on trade with Asia than President Trump realizes

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Nicholas Gordon

2 hours agoChina has long tried to present itself as the world’s true champion of globalization, with little success. Now Beijing has a new opening to push its message. China’s propaganda machine is in full churn as Beijing ramps up all of the tools at its disposal to fight a public relations war with …
Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan"

1 week ago | asianreviewofbooks.com | Nicholas Gordon

September 2nd will mark the 80th anniversary of Japan's formal surrender to the United States aboard the USS. Missouri, ending the Second World War. The U.S. decision to drop two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki-what drove Japan to surrender, at least in popular history-is still controversial to this day. How did the mass U.S. bombing campaign come about? Did the U.S. believe the atomic bomb was the only possible or the least bad option?
Comércio entre os EUA e a China pode sobreviver em um mundo pós-tarifa de 145%?

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Nicholas Gordon
Trump's 'punitive' China tariffs could end trade between the world's two largest economies-and that would be painful, volatile and dangerous

1 week ago | fortune.com | Nicholas Gordon

China's President Xi Jinping (R) and Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez arrive to a bilateral meeting at Diaoyutai Guest House in Beijing on April 11, 2025.
Trump’s ‘punitive’ China tariffs could end trade between the world’s two largest economies-and that would be painful, volatile, and dangerous

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Nicholas Gordon

Trade between the world’s two largest economies—a link that defined the world economy for two decades—is on life support. U.S. tariffs on China now stand at 145%; China’s tariffs on the U.S. now stand at 125%. And that’s just the baseline, not including additional tariffs on specific goods like steel (in the case of the U.S.) or agricultural products (in the case of China).
Asian markets celebrate Trump's trade flip-flop, even as he maintains historically high tariffs-and not just on China

2 weeks ago | fortune.com | Nicholas Gordon
The Maldives in Chinese History, c 1100-1620"

2 weeks ago | asianreviewofbooks.com | Nicholas Gordon

Chinese travelers first made their way to the Maldives in the Indian Ocean in the 14th century, looking for goods like coconuts, cowries, and ambergris. That started centuries of travel to the islands, including one trip by famed sailor Zheng He. Then, quickly, the Maldives-and the broader Indian Ocean-vanished as Ming China turned inward.
Trump's 'Liberation Day' tariffs are now in effect-and Asia is taking the hardest hit

2 weeks ago | fortune.com | Nicholas Gordon
Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs are now in effect-and Asia is taking the hardest hit

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Nicholas Gordon

Donald Trump's new trading system is here. “Liberation Day” tariffs went into effect at midnight Eastern time, imposing steep new taxes on goods from Asia, the world’s manufacturing center. Asian stock markets mostly fell on Wednesday, ending a brief “dead cat bounce” across the region’s equity markets. Trump’s steepest tariffs fall on China, one of the U.S.’s largest trading partners.

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