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Lizzi C. Lee

(She/Her)
New York
As seen in: Apple Podcasts, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Nikkei Asia, South China Morning Post, Foreign Policy Magazine, The Diplomat Magazine, SupChina, The China Project, The Wire China
Covers:  China, Chinese economy, Chinese politics, US-China relations

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Lizzi C. Lee’s Biography

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Lizzi C. Lee is a Fellow on Chinese Economy at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s (ASPI) Center for China Analysis (CCA). She is an economist turned journalist, and graduated from MIT’s Ph.D. program in Economics before joining the New York-based independent Chinese media outlet Wall St TV.

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How Xi Jinping Became a Prisoner of His Party's Language - The Wire China

How Xi Jinping Became a Prisoner of His Party's Language - The Wire China

Xi derives his power and authority from the Party's ideology, rhetoric, and rules - but now finds himself con…

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Opinion | Why Trump's return opens door for China to reform capital markets

Opinion | Why Trump's return opens door for China to reform capital markets

If Beijing seizes this chance, it could transform a familiar cycle of confrontation into a foundation for lon…

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Counting the China hawks in the Trump 2.0 administration is pointless

Counting the China hawks in the Trump 2.0 administration is pointless

Lizzi C. Lee is a fellow on the Chinese economy at Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis …

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Europe’s demand for Chinese tech transfers beats tariffs

Europe’s demand for Chinese tech transfers beats tariffs

Linking subsidies to intellectual property is the sort of strategic inclusion that fosters mutual benefits

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Xi Jinping Doesn't Have an Answer for China's Demographic Crisis

Xi Jinping Doesn't Have an Answer for China's Demographic Crisis

A call for a "high-quality population" ignores the country's real problems.

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Beijing Has Already Prepared for Trump's Return

Beijing Has Already Prepared for Trump's Return

China is readying for known challenges and unknown risks.

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Where Does China Fit in Your Company’s Innovation Strategy?

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By Jing Qian, Lizzi C. Lee
| Harvard Business Review Verified
For decades, multinationals treated China primarily as either a vast growth market or a rising competitive threat. But as growth slows, competition intensifies, and operating conditions become... For decades, multinationals largely framed China in one of two ways: The country was either an enormous growth market—challenging to operate in, but too big to ignore—or a rising competitor, increasingly difficult to out-run.
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Why Did Beijing Kill a $2 Billion AI Deal?

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By Lizzi C. Lee
| Foreign Policy Magazine Verified
Tech advocates and analysts once imagined a world in which talent, capital, and ideas would flow freely between China and California. The blocked acquisition of Chinese artificial intelligence firm Manus by U.S. giant Meta is another moment when the fantasy of seamless globalization smashes into the hard wall of national security politics.
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Xi Just Can’t Shake GDP Worship

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By Lizzi C. Lee, Shengyu Wang
| Foreign Policy Magazine Verified
Politics Economics Corruption Ahead of this year’s Two Sessions, the weeklong meeting of China’s largely rubber-stamp parliament that started on March 4, President Xi Jinping released another volume of his speeches—this time on what the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) calls the “correct view of political performance,” a concept that has become the centerpiece of an ongoing campaign to redefine how officials are judged. The timing is highly suggestive.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Wall St TV journalist

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Email or Twitter DM

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

Movavi, YouTube, Canva, Photoshop
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