Kandy Wong

Kandy Wong returned to the Post in 2022 as a correspondent for the Political Economy desk, having earlier worked as a reporter on the Business desk. She focuses on China’s trade relationships with the United States, the European Union and Australia, as well as the Belt & Road Initiative and currency issues. She graduated from New York University with a master’s degree in journalism in 2013. An award-winning journalist, she has worked in Hong Kong, China and New York for the Hong Kong Economic Journal and the Financial Times, E&E News, Forbes, The Economist Intelligence Unit, Nikkei Asia and Coconuts Media.

Recent articles by Kandy Wong

How deals are trumping port dispute on Australian PM Albanese’s China visit

How deals are trumping port dispute on Australian PM Albanese’s China visit

Source says the two sides have decided to step back from Darwin Port controversy amid trade tensions with US.

Australia concludes China decoupling impossible after carrying out series of classified studies

Australia concludes China decoupling impossible after carrying out series of classified studies

Australian authorities conducted three separate internal studies in the past eight years to determine whether the commodity-exporting nation could completely diversify its supply chains from China but all said the task was impossible, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.