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.

Articles

Asian executives are ‘worried about productivity’—and the solution may be giving young workers more say in how things are done

1 week ago | fortune.com | Nicholas Gordon

And even where productivity is still improving, it’s not doing so fast enough to catch up to leading firms in developed markets like the U.S. Throughout the 2010s, leading firms throughout Southeast Asia grew productivity below the global average. (China, by comparison, managed to keep up.)“In just about every Asian market, productivity as a measure of GDP divided by GDP per capita is stagnating or declining,” Simon Tate, Asia-Pacific president for Workday says.
2,000 Years of Conflict"

1 week ago | asianreviewofbooks.com | Nicholas Gordon

China, famously, built the Great Wall to defend against nomadic groups from the Eurasian steppe. For two millennia, China interacted with groups from the north: The Xiongnu, the Mongols, the Manchus, and the Russians. They defended against raids, got invaded by the north, and tried to launch diplomatic relations.
What Southeast Asia’s largest companies say about a region in flux

1 week ago | hallaback.com | Nicholas Gordon

Nicholas Gordon is an Asia editor based in Hong Kong, where he helps to drive Fortune’s coverage of Asian business and economics news.
What Southeast Asia's largest companies say about a region in flux

1 week ago | fortune.com | Nicholas Gordon

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What Southeast Asia’s largest companies say about a region in flux

1 week ago | aol.com | Nicholas Gordon

This year’s Southeast Asia 500, Fortune’s second annual ranking of the area’s largest companies by revenue, is a snapshot of a region ready to take advantage of global supply chain shifts and booming industries like mining, EVs, and AI—even as U.S. tariff policy threatens to roll back some of last year’s gains. Companies on this year’s 500 list generated $1.82 trillion in revenue last year, up 1.7% from the year before.
Why reviving U.S. tech manufacturing is harder than you think

1 week ago | aol.com | Nicholas Gordon

“Millions and millions of human beings screwing in little, little screws to make iPhones. That kind of this is going to come to America.”That was U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s pitch in April for the Trump administration’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, the most radical shift in U.S. trade policy since the 1930s.
The Life of Kim Il-sung"

2 weeks ago | asianreviewofbooks.com | Nicholas Gordon

The Kims, of North Korea, are perhaps the 21st century's most successful family dictatorship-if only due to sheer longevity, having run North Korea for the almost eight decades since the country's post-war founding. Kim Il-sung led North Korea for over half that time, from its founding in 1948 to Kim's death in 1994. But who was Kim Il-sung? How did someone who spent most of his early years in nearby Manchuria end up running North Korea?
Markets stay in a holding pattern as world awaits more Trump trade news

3 weeks ago | fortune.com | Nicholas Gordon

Hong Kong’s benchmark Hang Seng Index rose 1.1%, its third straight day of gains. Mainland China’s CSI 300 rose 0.2%. Japan’s Nikkei 225 fell 0.5%, as Japan embarks on a new round of trade negotiations with the U.S. ahead of a G7 summit in Canada. “Japan will continue to strongly urge the US to reconsider its series of tariff measures,” lead trade negotiator Ryosei Akazawa told reporters Thursday, as he left for Washington.
Markets stay in a holding pattern as world awaits more Trump trade news

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Nicholas Gordon

Markets stay in a holding pattern as world awaits more Trump trade newsAsian markets had a largely uneventful Thursday, as investors wait for more developments on how Trump’s trade negotiations with trading partners are …
Nintendo’s Switch 2 could breathe new life into the video game giant-if Trump’s trade war doesn’t upend it all

3 weeks ago | hallaback.com | Nicholas Gordon

Nicholas Gordon is an Asia editor based in Hong Kong, where he helps to drive Fortune’s coverage of Asian business and economics news.