Kristie Lu Stout✌🏽
@klustout
Anchor/correspondent @CNN @CNNi covering Hong Kong, China & Asia 🎥📝🌏| @AAJA | @fcchk | @Stanford | Name my momma gave me: 魯可蒂 (and I’m a momma to Ara & Bobo)
⭐️ On a stage in Hong Kong, “Donald Trump” is the unlikely star of a hit Cantonese opera that's helping to revive a treasured Chinese tradition. Produced by @hkchrislau amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/07/14…
BlackRock has told staff traveling to China for business trips to use temporary loaner phones and not to bring company laptops, underscoring growing concern among some global firms about employees working there bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
China has imposed exit bans on two Americans -- a Wells Fargo exec & a US Commerce Dept employee. Security experts advise firms to vet employees before traveling to China, esp those with dual passports, govt ties or involvement in sensitive sectors. youtube.com/watch?v=ZcuSPo…
The U.S. State Department said on Monday that the Chinese government had blocked a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office employee visiting the Asian country in a personal capacity from leaving. reuters.com/world/china/wa…
🧠 CNN gains rare access to a brain research lab in Beijing, where scientists are working to improve brain technology to help patients gain control of their speech and movement. Here's our report. edition.cnn.com/2025/07/20/chi…
🇨🇳🧠⚙️ China's brain tech breakthroughs are challenging Elon Musk's Neuralink as the nation rapidly advances in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology to help paralyzed people speak, move, and walk. edition.cnn.com/2025/07/20/chi…
9:20AM: Hurricane Signal, No. 10 issued hko.gov.hk/ea
Watch: President Trump signed the GENIUS Act, which will establish a regulatory framework for US dollar-pegged cryptocurrencies known as stablecoins, handing a huge win for the crypto industry, which has long sought mainstream legitimacy reut.rs/4fhcdfb
AlphaBot 2 wants to beat humans at their own game. But can this dice-playing robot eventually make you tea and do your dishes? And does it represent the future of humanoid mass adoption... led by China? edition.cnn.com/business/alpha… @kritig12 @amygunia
CBS has announced that it will end "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" next year cnn.it/3IyboSN
Wells Fargo suspends China travel after employee exit ban, source says reut.rs/458RnLf
This is a powerful and persuasive piece by @davidautor and @gordon_h_hanson in the NYT about how we need to focus on China's threat in tomorrow's industries, not keep looking back at yesterday's. nytimes.com/2025/07/14/opi…
China is on a quest to dominate the AI robot race with humanoids from China's AI² Robotics, EngineAI, and Unitree Robotics. Thanks to its talent pool, govt support & large/tech-savvy consumer base, China could overtake the US in humanoid adoption. edition.cnn.com/2025/07/16/bus…
China dominates the EV battery supply chain, from lithium processing to battery production. Now, Beijing is ensuring other countries can’t easily catch up by raising the bar for foreign companies to acquire leading Chinese technologies. wsj.com/world/china/ch…
U.S. lifts ban on NVIDIA’s H20 chip exports to China—making it official. Not a workaround—it’s a policy reversal. Keeps China tied into America’s AI infrastructure, while U.S. chips stay at the top edge. #NVIDIA #AI #USChina #TechPolicy
In this parallel universe of Cantonese opera, Donald Trump is the hero who draws a younger audience to a traditional art form, @klustout and I report cnn.com/2025/07/14/chi…
China posts better-than-expected Q2 growth of 5.2% on the back of strong export data, showing resilience in the face of Trump tariffs. But, as domestic challenges persist, does it *feel* like an economy growing at 5%? 🤔 youtube.com/watch?v=CABeYh… @nickm4rro @JohnLiuNN @simonelmc
As we were covering this story, my team & I were attacked by Israeli settlers. The back window of our vehicle was smashed, but we managed to escape unharmed. This is just a sliver of the reality many Palestinians face in the West Bank amid rising settler violence.