Alex W. Palmer

Alex W. Palmer Recent and archived work by Alex W. Palmer for The New York Times Latest Search The Sunday Read: ‘The Silicon Blockade’The Biden administration thinks it can preserve America’s technological primacy by cutting China off from advanced computer chips. Could the plan backfire? Aug. 13, 2023 ‘An Act of War’: Inside America’s Silicon Blockade Against ChinaThe Biden administration thinks it can preserve America’s technological primacy by cutting China off from advanced computer chips. Could the plan backfire? 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 July 12, 2023 How TikTok Became a Diplomatic CrisisA Chinese app conquered the planet — and now the U.S. is threatening to shut it down. Can the world’s biggest virality machine survive? 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 Dec. 20, 2022 The Sunday Read: ‘They Came to Help Migrants. Now, Europe Has Turned on Them.’The legal ordeal of two aid workers shows that anti-migrant attitudes in Greece and across Europe have hardened to the point that such helpers have become political. targets. April 3, 2022 They Came to Help Migrants. Now, Europe Has Turned on Them.As the legal ordeal of two aid workers shows, anti-migrant attitudes in Greece and across Europe have hardened — to the point that the helpers have become political targets. March 2, 2022 The Man Behind China’s Aggressive New VoiceHow one bureaucrat, armed with just a Twitter account, remade Beijing’s diplomacy for a nationalistic era. 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 July 7, 2021 The China Connection: How One D.E.A. Agent Cracked a Global Fentanyl RingFentanyl is quickly becoming America’s deadliest drug. But law enforcement couldn’t trace it to its source — until one teenager overdosed in North Dakota. Oct. 16, 2019 THE DAILY Listen to ‘The Daily’: Hong Kong’s Missing BooksellerWhen the owner of a thriving Hong Kong bookstore disappeared, questions swirled. What happened? And what did the Chinese government have to do with it? April 24, 2018 FEATURE The Case of Hong Kong’s Missing BooksellersAs China’s Xi Jinping consolidates power, owners of Hong Kong bookstores trafficking in banned books find themselves playing a very dangerous game. 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 April 3, 2018 FEATURE ‘Flee at Once’: China’s Besieged Human Rights LawyersAs the global spotlight on the nation’s domestic policies has dimmed, lawyers for dissidents increasingly face a terrible choice: acquiescence or imprisonment. 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 July 25, 2017 SHOW MORE Site IndexSite Information Navigation© 2023 The New York Times Company NYTCo Contact Us Accessibility Work with us Advertise T Brand Studio Your Ad Choices Privacy Policy Terms of Service Terms of Sale Site Map Canada International Help Subscriptions