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China’s biotech sector has surpassed the EU to become the world’s second-largest new drug maker.

For global firms, opportunity lies in treating China as a co-innovation hub while maintaining safeguards.

From Lizzi Lee and Huiyan Li in our newsletter
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Happy Lunar New Year! 🐎
The Nüora Global team wishes everyone a year filled with success, happiness, peace, and good health!
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Venezuela, Energy, and the U.S.–China Power Struggle How U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere is forcing Beijing to rethink its approach — and how companies can manage risk

Meanwhile, Beijing is using this to bolster its standing in the Global South while likely assessing operational and strategic lessons for Taiwan.

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Credit: Oil well at sunset. Photo by Jan Zakelj/Pexels

According to Kuo, oil is the pressure point. Control of Venezuela’s reserves reshapes global energy flows, debt exposure, and China’s sourcing options. "If Venezuelan oil exports to China are hampered, China could seek alternative sources of crude oil from Canada, Iran or Iraq," she says.

Image depicts two paper boats - red one with US flag on left and blue one with China flag on right - sitting atop a map.

Venezuela, Energy, and the U.S.–China Power Struggle: In this week’s @nuoraglobal.bsky.social newsletter, guest expert consultant Mercy Kuo unpacks how U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere is forcing Beijing to rethink its approach — and how companies can manage risk. Link below 👇

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NüVoices Podcast Bonus #1: You Need Glasses for Asian Faces, A Reading by Juliette Yu-Ming Lizeray Welcome to this special installment of the NüVoices podcast. I’m Jessie Lau, editor and board member of NuVoices — a collective celebrating the brilliant women shaping how we understand China today through their writing, research, and in-depth reporting. We’re a volunteer-led nonprofit that first launched in 2018 and is now registered as an NGO.

BONUS EPISODE: This week, we invited Juliette Yu-Ming Lizeray, winner of the first annual NüStories personal essay contest, to read her essay, “You need glasses for Asian faces”: nuvoices.com/2026/01/28/n...

Tracking China’s Global Tech and Investment Moves Tips from the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Malaysia

I spoke last month on how Chinese firms operate across borders amid tariffs and export bans.

I break down what’s actually changing with China's role in tech supply chains — and how to track it — in this week’s
@nuoraglobal.bsky.social newsletter.

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NüVoices Podcast #127: Joanna Chiu and Jessie Lau on Media Entrepreneurship and the Power of Innovation This week, NüVoices host and founder Joanna Chiu joins NüVoices editor and board member Jessie Lau to discuss their exciting new life chapters that extend their vision of NüVoices. 

NEW EPISODE: This week, NüVoices board members @joannachiu.bsky.social ‌and @laujessie.bsky.social discuss their exciting new chapters - and the two initiatives they’ve just launched in the UK and North America 🎧: nuvoices.com/2025/12/17/n...

In this Reuters photograph taken by Amr Alfiky, people look on near the Wang Fuk Court housing complex after the deadly Nov. 26 fire, in Hong Kong on Dec. 1.

In separate op-ed pieces about the Tai Po apartment fires, Nüora co-founders @joannachiu.bsky.social and Crystal Tai wrote about their memories of Hong Kong, its resiliency, and the inequalities facing many of its residences:

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What the Tai Po Fires Reveal — A Perspective from Nüora’s Co-Founders In two op-eds, Crystal Tai and Joanna Chiu reflect on Hong Kong’s shaken identity, its resilience, and the deep inequalities that shaped the Tai Po fire’s toll.

Our latest Substack includes excerpts from two sister op-ed pieces published in @theglobeandmail.com and @thestar.com by our co-founders @joannachiu.bsky.social and Crystal Tai.

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Opinion: If Hong Kong’s heritage is to blame for the Tai Po fire, it wasn’t the bamboo People were quick to fault Hong Kong’s famous bamboo scaffolding for the deadly fire at Wang Fuk Court, but the city’s deep inequality is a far likelier culprit

I grew up feeling safe walking Hong Kong’s sidewalks under bamboo canopies.

The Tai Po fire was a tragedy made deadlier by inequality — not a craft that has shaped Hong Kong’s identity. My op-ed in @theglobeandmail.com

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... #HongKongfire #taipofire #WangFukCourt

Thank you!!!

Loved this nuanced op-ed piece by @joannachiu.bsky.social that captures what is worth preserving -- and what is wrong and urgently needs fixing -- in Hong Kong.

Nüora managing partner Joanna Chiu adds context and nuance to the Tai Po tragedy in this Globe and Mail op-ed. Read it online now and in print tomorrow.

We're launched! Bringing newsroom rigor to global strategy — meet Nüora Global Advisors, our new consultancy decoding Asia. 🌏

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Opinion: If Hong Kong’s heritage is to blame for the Tai Po fire, it wasn’t the bamboo People were quick to fault Hong Kong’s famous bamboo scaffolding for the deadly fire at Wang Fuk Court, but the city’s deep inequality is a far likelier culprit

I grew up feeling safe walking Hong Kong’s sidewalks under bamboo canopies.

The Tai Po fire was a tragedy made deadlier by inequality — not a craft that has shaped Hong Kong’s identity. My op-ed in @theglobeandmail.com

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... #HongKongfire #taipofire #WangFukCourt

Image is a composite of The Negotiation Podcast logo and a photo of Nuora Managing Partner Crystal Tai.

From Lululemon and winterwear, to post-COVID travel and Starbucks, The Negotiation host Todd Embley chats with Crystal Tai, journalist and Managing Partner at @nuoraglobal.bsky.social about China's consumer culture.
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While at @restofworld.org @joannachiu.bsky.social's China team @selinacheng.bsky.social @violazhou.bsky.social reported exclusively that Foxconn halted sending Chinese staff & equipment to its India iPhone factories, a move that could disrupt production there. /4 #GIJC25 bsky.app/profile/seli...

Joanna Chiu is picture at the podium for a panel on Investigating China's Foreign Investment and Supply Chains. On the projected screen behind her is a list of the speakers at this session.

Photo from GIJC25 panel on investigating global supply chains. Slide show text says: Nuora Global Advisors can help with analysis and training, translations and cultural context, OSINT investigations, connections to China experts and tech companies. https://www.nuoraglobal.com/contact @nuoraglobal

Our managing partner @joannachiu.bsky.social spoke this weekend at the #GIJC25 on investigating China's foreign investment and supply chains alongside @pagina12ok.bsky.social Javier Lewkowicz, Initium Media's Lulu Ning Hui, @projectm-poster.bsky.social Permata Adinda, moderated by nithincoca.com 1/

Official figures have yet to be released, but according to @reuters, Single's Day, the world's largest shopping event, failed to spark excitement this year. #singlesday #1111 #nov11

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It’s going to be a great episode! Subscribe to the NüVoices Podcast on your favorite platform to catch it when it drops next month.

Had a great time co-hosting the @nuvoices.bsky.social podcast with @laujessie.bsky.social, sharing @nuoraglobal.bsky.social's vision and first project!
Big congrats on launching New Tide to support East & SE Asian journalists in London.
Episode on founding orgs + charting career paths coming soon!

Several members of the @nuoraglobal.bsky.social team are part of the @nuvoices.bsky.social collective. It's amazing -- and inspiring -- to see what happens when smart women come together and pool their expertise and experience!

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What started as café and happy hour meetups in Vancouver with co-founder Crystal Tai has grown into a powerhouse team of women spanning Paris, New York, and Hong Kong. Building this company from the ground up has been such a privilege.

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