Nicholas Gordon

Nicholas Gordon

Nicholas Gordon is an Asia editor based in Hong Kong, where he helps to drive Fortune’s coverage of Asian business and economics news. He also handles commentary from the Asia-Pacific region, and serves as a co-chair for Fortune’s Asia conferences including Brainstorm Design, and supports the creation of Asia lists like the Southeast Asia 500. Prior to joining Fortune, he worked as a researcher and writer for a Hong Kong-based economic development think tank. He is a graduate of Harvard University and Oxford University.

  • WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 23: Jensen Huang, Co-Founder and CEO, NVIDIA speaks onstage at the All-In and Hill & Valley Forum “Winning The AI Race” at Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium on July 23, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for Hill & Valley Forum)Tech

    Nvidia still isn’t sure if it can sell chips to China, threatening access to what CEO Jensen Huang calls a $50 billion opportunity

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  • BEIJING, CHINA – DECEMBER 05: The CITIC Bank Building, centre, is seen with the skyline of the Central Business District at dusk on December 5, 2024 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)Economy

    China’s economic data is famously unreliable—and could be a warning if Trump meddles with the Bureau of Labor Statistics

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  • Donald Trump shakes hands with Nvidia CEO Jensen HuangTech

    Nvidia and AMD’s ‘special treatment’ from Trump is shaking up an already tangled global chip supply chain

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  • WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 30: U.S. President Donald Trump (L) listens as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks in the Cross Hall of the White House during an event on “Investing in America” on April 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump was joined by CEOs to highlight companies and their investments in the United States during the event. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)Tech

    U.S.-China chip war: How Trump’s Nvidia-AMD deal has redefined Washington’s export control policy

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  • Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., arrives for the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, US, on Tuesday, July 8, 2025. The annual event has been a historic breeding ground for media deals and is usually a forum for tech and media elites to discuss the future of their industry. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesAI

    OpenAI’s open-source pivot shows how U.S. tech is trying to catch up to China’s AI boom

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  • CHONGQING, CHINA – JUNE 04: A food delivery rider in a yellow uniform walks past a large wall mural of Colonel Sanders outside a KFC restaurant while checking his phone, on June 04, 2025 in Chongqing, China. (Photo by Cheng Xin/Getty Images)Finance

    Yum China’s sales keep growing, but a fierce food-delivery price war may be weighing on investor sentiment

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  • Businessman standing in front of buildings.Newsletters

    ‘We want to be patient’: Southeast Asia’s venture investors are excited about AI–but less excited about the region

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  • Executive Director, co-CEO of Ping An Michael Guo poses for a photograph at the Ping An Finance Center in Shenzhen, China, on Thursday, July 17, 2025Magazine

    Ping An wants to turn China’s demographic crisis into an opportunity to showcase a ‘silver future’

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  • Brainstorm AI Singapore 2025Conferences

    Big banks can ‘afford to be a little behind the curve’ on AI, and let smaller startups make riskier bets

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  • Brainstorm AI Singapore 2025Conferences

    The CEO of Southeast Asia’s largest bank knows even her job is at risk from AI

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  • Josephine Teo pointed out that DeepSeek was part of a broader shift in AI to reflect needs outside of the West. “We know that large language models that are trained primarily on a Western corpus…will have difficulties being applied in the Southeast Asian context.”Conferences

    Cheaper AI like China’s DeepSeek are ‘very welcome,’ says Singapore’s digital minister Josephine Teo

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  • Cropped shot of woman’s hand typing on computer keyboard in the dark, working late on laptop at homeTech

    Cybercrime is big business in Asia, and AI could be about to make things worse

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  • Honor’s Magic V5 foldable is the company’s latest venture in China’s fiercely competitive smartphone market.Tech

    ‘Massive’ investment in R&D leads China’s Honor to launch world’s thinnest foldable phone

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  • “The future is not just in North America, it’s global,” Centific CEO Venkat Rangapuram told Fortune.Finance

    Singapore VC Granite Asia leads $60 million funding round for AI ‘data foundry’ Centific to fuel global expansion

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  • Rows of planted palm oil trees at the Sime Darby Corporation, the largest palm oil producers in the world. | Location: Segamat, Johor, Malaysia. (Photo by Viviane Moos/Corbis via Getty Images)Newsletters

    Fortune Archives: The colonial venture that became an Asian powerhouse conglomerate

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