David Wertime is a senior editor at Foreign Policy, where he manages its China section, Tea Leaf Nation. In 2011, he co-founded Tea Leaf Nation as a private company translating and analyzing Chinese social media, which the FP Group acquired in September 2013. David has since created two new miniseries and launched FP’s Chinese-language service. His culture-bridging work has been profiled in books including The Athena Doctrine and Digital Cosmopolitans and magazines including Psychology Today. David frequently discusses China on television and radio and has testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. In his spare time, David is an avid marathon runner, a kitchen volunteer at So Others Might Eat, and an expert mentor at 1776, a Washington, D.C.-based incubator and seed fund. Originally from Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, David is a proud returned Peace Corps volunteer. He holds an English degree from Yale University and a law degree from Harvard University.
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People walks along a pedestrian bridge with a screen showing stock market movements in Shanghai on January 7, 2016. China's market regulator on January 7 extended restrictions on big shareholders selling stocks, on whom a ban had been due to expire at the end of the week, as trade was suspended in the morning following a seven percent plunge. AFP PHOTO CHINA OUT / AFP / STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
A board shows the stock movements inside the Shanghai Stock Exchange in the Lujiazui Financial district of Shanghai on September 22, 2015. AFP PHOTO / JOHANNES EISELE (Photo credit should read JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images)
Journalists (bottom) prevented from moving any closer to the site by security personnel, shoot outside the site of landslide that hit an industrial park in Shenzhen in south China's Guangdong province on December 22, 2015. Rescuers struggled to claw away a massive mound of mud engulfing an industrial district in China on December 22 in a desperate bid to find survivors among 76 missing people following a landslide that occurred despite multiple warnings. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO / STR / AFP / STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
A woman cheers for celebrating upcoming new year during a New Year's Eve countdown event in front of Beijing's National Stadium, Known as the Bird's Nest in Beijing on December 31,2014. Beijing is bidding to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, with a decision on the winning city to be made in July 2015. AFP PHOTO / WANG ZHAO (Photo credit should read WANG ZHAO/AFP/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 19: Alibaba Group signage is posted outside the New York Stock Exchange prior to the company's initial price offering (IPO) on September 19, 2014 in New York City. The New York Times reported yesterday that Alibaba had raised $21.8 Billion in their initial public offering so far. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
Chinese investment company Fosun chairman Guo Guangchang visits the Club Med Champs-Elysees Boutique on June 29, 2010. Fosun bought a seven-percent stake in French leisure group Club Med, which is looking to tap the growing Chinese tourism market, the two companies said on June 13, 2010. AFP PHOTO ERIC PIERMONT (Photo credit should read ERIC PIERMONT/AFP/Getty Images)
Participants wave flowers during a mass military parade in Pyongyang on October 10, 2015. North Korea was marking the 70th anniversary of its ruling Workers' Party. AFP PHOTO / Ed Jones (Photo credit should read ED JONES/AFP/Getty Images)
Trade representatives attend at a press conference for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a pan-Pacific trade agreement by trade ministers from 12 nations in Sydney on October 27, 2014. The TPP, which would encompass 40 percent of the global economy and include 12 nations, has been the subject of negotiations for years. AFP PHOTO/Peter PARKS (Photo credit should read PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images)
SEATTLE, WA - SEPTEMBER 22: Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during a meeting with five United States governors to discuss clean technology and economic development September 22, 2015 in Seattle, Washington. Xi is on his first state visit to the U.S. (Photo by Matt Mills McKnight-Pool/Getty Images)
