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(He/他) The fourth Hudson Coleman Lockett. Asia columnist at Reuters Breakingviews; former Asia capital markets corro for the Financial Times; longtime China and Hong Kong corro. Decent Mando, swears in Canto, brushing up on Japanese. Views = mine
Suddenly can’t throw a rock in Hong Kong without hitting a construction site that’s tearing down its safety netting. Funnily, none of them are bothering with the bamboo.
November 28, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Suddenly can’t throw a rock in Hong Kong without hitting a construction site that’s tearing down its safety netting. Funnily, none of them are bothering with the bamboo.
It's true, and it's amazing
September 18, 2025 at 2:19 AM
It's true, and it's amazing
GHAWjuss
September 12, 2025 at 5:11 AM
GHAWjuss
New @breakingviews.reuters.com: Elliott Management is pushing one of Japan's top nuclear power providers to sell $13.6bn in assets unrelated to its energy biz. Being in a sensitive sector might've warded off activist investors before—but no longer. It's a new frontier www.reuters.com/commentary/b...
September 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
New @breakingviews.reuters.com: Elliott Management is pushing one of Japan's top nuclear power providers to sell $13.6bn in assets unrelated to its energy biz. Being in a sensitive sector might've warded off activist investors before—but no longer. It's a new frontier www.reuters.com/commentary/b...
Helluva view
August 20, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Helluva view
The view from Hong Kong
July 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The view from Hong Kong
Behold my latest in a long-running series, this time in column form for @breakingviews.reuters.com: www.breakingviews.com/columns/cons...
June 24, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Behold my latest in a long-running series, this time in column form for @breakingviews.reuters.com: www.breakingviews.com/columns/cons...
"What does 1960s erotic art tell us about today?" Well look I dunno what it tells you guys, but it tells me the in-house designers at Microsoft were scoping the works of Louise Bourgeois ahead of the Xbox launch circa 2001.
June 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
"What does 1960s erotic art tell us about today?" Well look I dunno what it tells you guys, but it tells me the in-house designers at Microsoft were scoping the works of Louise Bourgeois ahead of the Xbox launch circa 2001.
Hong Kong, you’re alllllll right
June 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Hong Kong, you’re alllllll right
Am pearl-clutchingly shocked to see The Economist triple-dipping on its cover this week. No doubt this strategy gets more play on social media ("Look, our country made the cover of The Economist!") but surely the self-professed bastion of liberalism understands the dangers of inflation?
May 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Am pearl-clutchingly shocked to see The Economist triple-dipping on its cover this week. No doubt this strategy gets more play on social media ("Look, our country made the cover of The Economist!") but surely the self-professed bastion of liberalism understands the dangers of inflation?
Feeling reasonably justified in using my browser's "block elements" function to erase the auto-generated AI summaries ("Takeaways") that now appear at the top of every Bloomberg story bloomberg.com/news/article...
May 6, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Feeling reasonably justified in using my browser's "block elements" function to erase the auto-generated AI summaries ("Takeaways") that now appear at the top of every Bloomberg story bloomberg.com/news/article...
So dire wolves didn't live in cold climates, yet these "revived" wolves have white coats normally only found in species adapted to permafrost environments (eg polar bears) and all the promotional photos show the pups in snowy environs evoking Game of Thrones. Right. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
April 8, 2025 at 10:48 AM
So dire wolves didn't live in cold climates, yet these "revived" wolves have white coats normally only found in species adapted to permafrost environments (eg polar bears) and all the promotional photos show the pups in snowy environs evoking Game of Thrones. Right. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Folks we gotta stop getting excited about humanoid robots. Tesla, Unitree, I don't care which. We've done this before: Honda axed ASIMO in 2018 because they realized it could easily fall over and crush a child to death. These things are so heavy, and so pointless global.honda/en/robotics/...
February 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Folks we gotta stop getting excited about humanoid robots. Tesla, Unitree, I don't care which. We've done this before: Honda axed ASIMO in 2018 because they realized it could easily fall over and crush a child to death. These things are so heavy, and so pointless global.honda/en/robotics/...
Big OG Twitter vibe, I like it: movies you've watched more than six times, gifs only.
February 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Big OG Twitter vibe, I like it: movies you've watched more than six times, gifs only.
Deep dive @breakingviews.reuters.com: After 12 years and 6 mln punished officials Xi Jinping's anti-graft drive has yet to stamp out graft in China. Now the campaign is increasingly focused on punishing bureaucrats for the policy paralysis it caused in the first place www.reuters.com/breakingview...
February 19, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Deep dive @breakingviews.reuters.com: After 12 years and 6 mln punished officials Xi Jinping's anti-graft drive has yet to stamp out graft in China. Now the campaign is increasingly focused on punishing bureaucrats for the policy paralysis it caused in the first place www.reuters.com/breakingview...
Also check out the golden samurai helmet Ishiba gave Trump—the man knew *exactly* who he was dealing with
February 10, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Also check out the golden samurai helmet Ishiba gave Trump—the man knew *exactly* who he was dealing with
I think folks who’ve lived/studied abroad or worked at MNCs get this, but we’re a small minority and most in the US get exposed to a crapshoot of depictions. The chatter on RedNote is not that unlike tourist convos once common in Beijing, but the net is cast far wider. So you still gems like this.
January 17, 2025 at 5:50 AM
I think folks who’ve lived/studied abroad or worked at MNCs get this, but we’re a small minority and most in the US get exposed to a crapshoot of depictions. The chatter on RedNote is not that unlike tourist convos once common in Beijing, but the net is cast far wider. So you still gems like this.
I suppose I should start posting my @breakingviews.reuters.com columns here, no? Nippon Life plays up Japan Inc’s existential angst bit.ly/4fkGbgI
December 11, 2024 at 8:57 AM
I suppose I should start posting my @breakingviews.reuters.com columns here, no? Nippon Life plays up Japan Inc’s existential angst bit.ly/4fkGbgI
Ghostly Godzilla in Taipei
May 23, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Ghostly Godzilla in Taipei
Faith in Bluesky as a viable alternative to the other place... rising
February 9, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Faith in Bluesky as a viable alternative to the other place... rising