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Yvonne Lau is a former Hong Kong-based writer for Fortune, where she covered Asia's financial markets, with a focus on IPOs, fintech, crypto, and China. Prior to joining Fortune, Yvonne covered commercial re/insurance markets for InsuranceAsia News and worked for Thomson Reuters and The Economist. She speaks English, Russian, Cantonese, and Mandarin. An Alberta native, Yvonne studied political science at the University of Calgary.

Photo of Gary Gensler sitting down at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissions' headquarters in Washington, D.C., on July 22, 2021.
FinanceSEC chief puts Washington and Beijing on the clock with $1.3 trillion of U.S.-listed Chinese stocks at stake
By Yvonne LauJuly 27, 2022
Photo of U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaking at a news conference on June 15, 2022.
PoliticsChina has been waging a secret decade-long campaign targeting U.S. economic data, and the Fed’s defense is a joke, senator says
By Yvonne LauJuly 26, 2022
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Think U.S. car prices are bad? In Singapore you have to spend $82,000 just for the right to buy a car, on top of the car itself
By Yvonne LauJuly 25, 2022
Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger
PoliticsThe U.S. wants to spend $52 billion to become a chips powerhouse. Experts say that hundreds of billions—and decades—is needed to crack its reliance on Asia
By Yvonne LauJuly 24, 2022
Photo of former Evergrande CEO Xia Haijun at a press conference in Hong Kong on August 28, 2017.
Real EstateThe CEO and CFO at the center of China’s real estate crisis just resigned as internal probe over mysterious $2 billion seized by banks continues
By Yvonne LauJuly 22, 2022
Photo of Hong Kong pro-democracy protestors forming a human chain in front of an HSBC bank branch in Hong Kong on August 23, 2019.
FinanceChina just put foreign banks on notice: Creating an internal Communist Party committee could be the cost of doing business
By Yvonne LauJuly 21, 2022
Photo of pedestrians crossing a road in Shanghai's financial district.
FinanceChina’s billionaires want to flee the country, and take $60 billion of wealth with them on their way out
By Yvonne LauJuly 21, 2022
Photo of U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol shaking hands in Seoul, South Korea, on July 19, 2022.
PoliticsWhat is friendshoring? Janet Yellen’s new strategy for fixing the supply chain crisis
By Yvonne LauJuly 19, 2022
Photo of people riding bicycles in front of sections of pipe for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline on August 4, 2021, in Sassnitz, Germany.
EnvironmentEurope’s new normal: Scorching summer followed by ‘long, hard winter,’ as IEA tells it to cut Russian gas, or else
By Yvonne LauJuly 18, 2022
A worker sits in front of the construction site of an unfinished building project by China's Evergrande Group.
Real EstateThe great Chinese mortgage strike: Thousands of homebuyers are refusing to pay their home loans as growing boycotts spread online
By Yvonne LauJuly 18, 2022
Why hasn’t the Russian economy tanked yet? Putin has been preparing for this moment for years
FinanceWhy hasn’t the Russian economy tanked yet? Putin has been preparing for this moment for years
By Yvonne LauJuly 16, 2022
Young Chinese gamers play on their mobile phones outside a shopping mall.
TechChina’s biggest video game company crushes the rumor-fueled dreams of teen gamers and denies it will allow more screen time 
By Yvonne LauJuly 13, 2022
Photo of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a military welcoming ceremony in Beijing in June 2018.
EnergyWhy China buying more Russian oil than ever doesn’t mean that Putin has a blank check
By Yvonne LauJuly 13, 2022
A $1.3 trillion question: The fate of 261 Chinese stocks listed in the U.S. hinges on one key point
FinanceA $1.3 trillion question: The fate of 261 Chinese stocks listed in the U.S. hinges on one key point
By Yvonne LauJuly 8, 2022
There’s a huge problem for the clean energy shift and it comes from China, unprecedented IEA report says
EnvironmentThere’s a huge problem for the clean energy shift and it comes from China, unprecedented IEA report says
By Yvonne LauJuly 7, 2022
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