The making of IShowSpeed's China tour 💨| Following the Yuan

Speed's unfiltered live-streams defied China’s traditional propaganda model and stringent information control, and that was why it has been such a success.

Trump’s tariffs shocked my home city in the Yangtze River Delta region, one of whose most important economic pillars is import and export. On April 2, the day the White House announced it, I happen to have dinner plans two school friends in the export business.

One friend’s family business specializes in auto parts. He’s not worried at all and said the A…