Chao Deng
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Reporter @WSJ covering the U.S. economy. Previously a foreign correspondent in China, Taiwan and Egypt.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined August 2009
U.S. funding for anti-HIV initiatives in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been cut. Humanitarian officials fear infections will surge.
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U.S. funded treatments in the country have helped reduce deaths from HIV/AIDS to around 14,000 a year, from as high as 200,000.
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On the economic challenges plaguing young Americans and why saving money is now cool 😎. She gets extra compliments when she reveals her manicures are $20 press-ons from Target. “It’s the equivalent to saying your dress has pockets".
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A combination of economic challenges is driving a decline in spending among Gen Z.
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Smart take by @greg_ip on how to make housing markets work. And why @ZohranKMamdani's proposal to freeze rent won't fix New York's housing shortage.
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Austin, Texas, and other red-state cities have set an example for how to make housing markets work.
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RT @Yaqiu: Great piece by @Megankstack. China's Orwellian present can be America's future. You don't want to live in a society where everyt….
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Promises of safety and convenience belie the machinery of political abuse.
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Trump has pledged to bring more factory work back to the U.S. but 449,000 jobs in manufacturing are already going unfilled. Workers say it's the younger generation that doesn't want to clock in. Reporting from Ohio w/ @tepingchen.
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The president has pledged to bring more factory work back to the U.S., but many manufacturing jobs are already going unfilled.
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The Trump-Harvard standoff has far-reaching economic implications. From biotech to retail, most sectors in Boston are intricately tied to the university's students and faculty. w/@KonradPutzier.
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Far beyond Harvard Yard, the university is a major economic engine for the region.
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Tariffs are again at the center of Trump’s economic strategy, yet the effects of those from his first term are still coming into full view. How exactly do tariffs change things for ordinary Americans? A small town in South Carolina offers some answers.
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Tariffs imposed during the first Trump administration led Samsung to invest in a washing machine factory, giving Newberry, S.C. a boost. But they also pushed up prices of washers for consumers...
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E-commerce items in the U.S. could see a price hike, after an executive order by Trump targeting China. Young, low-income American shoppers are set to lose out.
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The flurry of executive decisions by President Trump includes a less-noticed move to begin charging tariffs on billions of dollars worth of Chinese clothing and other inexpensive Chinese goods...
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How the U.S.-Canada-Mexico tariffs will work—and what products are targeted:.
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Uncertainty surrounds the trade war touched off by Trump’s tariffs. But some of the basics are taking shape.
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Gut-wrenching report by @jmalsin on the search for missing loved ones at Syria's Saydnaya prison. Among the dead: a young man ratted out for just *thinking* about joining the opposition to Assad's regime.
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Syrians searching for missing loved ones are scouring the country’s most notorious prison for information and anyone still alive, while bodies of detainees recovered from the prison fill the corone...
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RT @NRC_Egeland: As we entered the apocalyptic, destroyed Gaza City, desperate families from the besieged North Gaza were fleeting south wi….
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Musk and Putin continued to have contact this year as Musk stepped up criticism of US military aid to Ukraine + got involved in Trump’s election campaign. Important report by @tggrove et al.
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Regular contacts between world’s richest man and America’s chief antagonist raise security concerns. Topics include geopolitics, business and personal matters.
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RT @MaraHvistendahl: I have an investigation out today, with @JoyDongHK, on the true cost of the panda program. I obtained rarely seen phot….
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In the 1990s, China began sending pandas to foreign zoos to be bred, in the hope that future generations could be released into the wild. It hasn’t gone as planned.
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RT @mideastXmidwest: Samantha Power is the most famous critic of American complicity in genocide. But now that she is Biden's top humanita….
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America’s chief humanitarian official rose to fame by speaking out against atrocities. Now she’s trapped by one.
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Chock full of detail by @eliotwb et al.
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Helped by political ties and cash from Gulf states, the power couple plans to develop ultraluxury resorts in Albania.
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RT @crampell: Economists and ordinary people often seem to inhabit different planets, but seldom has the chasm been this wide. WSJ surveyed….
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RT @AndrewRestuccia: "The sudden loss of the county’s biggest employer has shocked the community and put 500 people, mostly Black workers,….
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A decadeslong decline in manufacturing in rural, southern Virginia will make it all the more difficult for hundreds of laid-off factory workers.
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RT @EllenBarryNYT: Magnificent, novelistic piece by @satopol, conveys the internal rot behind the Russian war in Ukraine as well as anyth….
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He didn’t want to fight in Putin’s war — he just wanted to survive. But to make it back to his family and live in peace, he would have to run.
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RT @georgikantchev: Our look into how the exploding pagers got to Hezbollah via a labyrinth of shadowy companies and individuals spanning A….
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The attack on the militant group has prompted several investigations into the supply chain behind the devices that detonated this week.
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How should the U.S. protect its economy against China's? . Consider this Alabama hanger factory trying to implement tariffs to survive:. Now ask should "the U.S. be using any of its resources in protecting this part of manufacturing?" @EswarSPrasad.
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Long before Trump hit Beijing with tariffs, an American company making wire hangers won numerous trade cases involving Chinese hangers. Still it struggles to survive.
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