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.
NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 10: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during the afternoon of August 10, 2015 in New York City. The Dow Jones surged over 230 points after five days of losses. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
Flames and smoke rise from the site of a series of explosions in Tianjin early on August 13, 2015. A series of massive explosions at a warehouse in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin killed 17 people, state media reported August 13, as witnesses described a fireball from the blasts ripping through the night sky. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
To go with AFP story 'China-politics-Internet' by Pascale Trouillaud
This photo taken on May 12, 2011 shows people at an internet cafe in Beijing. China, which employs an army of censors to police the Internet, has also deployed legions of "web commentators" to get the government's message out -- in a crafty but effective way. AFP PHOTO/GOU Yige (Photo credit should read GOU YIGE/AFP/Getty Images)
Two women check the pictures they took next to the city's charging bull statue -- inspired by a similar one on Wall Street in New York -- in Shanghai on July 20, 2010. Both Shanghai and Hong Kong rose on hopes that Beijing will ease back on tightening measures aimed at slowing the country's breakneck growth, with Shanghai's Composite Index closing up 2.15 percent, or 53.31 points, at a three-week high of 2,528.73, led by property developers. AFP PHOTO/PHILIPPE LOPEZ (Photo credit should read PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
Chinese stock investors react as they check share prices at a securities firm in Fuyang, in China's Anhui province on June 19, 2015. Shanghai shares plunged 6.42 percent on June 19, ending a torrid week as the benchmark index was hit by tight liquidity and profit-taking after a powerful surge over the past year. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
TO GO WITH Lifestyle-China-HongKong-literature,FEATURE by Samantha Kuok Leese
In this picture taken on August 20, 2012 a woman browses books in a bookstore of Hong Kong. A potent mix of state censorship, conservative publishing choices and scant translation means international readers are given a narrow view of contemporary China, industry critics say. AFP PHOTO / Philippe Lopez (Photo credit should read PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/GettyImages)
A Chinese soldier stands guard near the unseen capsized passenger ship Dongfangzhixing or "Eastern Star" vessel which sank in the Yangtze river in Jianli, central China's Hubei province on June 2, 2015. Divers raced to find survivors on June 2 after a Chinese ship sank with more than 450 mainly elderly people in the storm-tossed Yangtze river, raising hopes more people can be found alive. AFP PHOTO / JOHANNES EISELE (Photo credit should read JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images)
WAUKEE, IA - APRIL 25: Former business executive Carly Fiorina speaks to guests gathered at the Point of Grace Church for the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition 2015 Spring Kickoff on April 25, 2015 in Waukee, Iowa. The Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition, a conservative Christian organization, hosted 9 potential contenders for the 2016 Republican presidential nominations at the event. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
A stock investor gestures as he checks share prices at a securities firm in Fuyang, east China's Anhui province on January 19, 2015. Chinese shares plunged on January 19 after regulators punished several brokerages for violating rules for margin trading business, which has fuelled an extended market rally, analysts said. AFP PHOTO CHINA OUT (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
