Katherine Li - Business Insider

Katherine Li is a junior reporter on Business Insider's West Coast business news team. She covers trade policies, tariffs, and business practices, with a particular interest in Tesla and how larger economic sentiments impact individuals. Previously, she was a newsroom fellow who wrote international breaking news and produced newsletters Semafor. Before that, she wrote about climate policies for The Lever, covered the AAPI community for the SF Chronicle as a freelancer, and wrote about the 2019 Hong Kong protests as an intern for The New York Times.She is an alumna of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, and a graduate of the international journalism program at Hong Kong Baptist University with minors in French and English literature.  Email Katherine at katherineli@insider.com and follow her on Bluesky @katherineli.bsky.social. ExpertiseTrade policies & tariffsEconomic & social policies in East AsiaBusiness & innovative techWest Coast AAPI communitiesSome of her best work include:Companies are struggling to fill manufacturing positions, let alone plan for what Trump's administration has in mindNightmare on Main Street: Trump's trade war is hurting American small businessesDOGE and economic uncertainty are coming for your work-life balanceCanadian grocery stores are sidelining US products — and American businesses are feeling the pinchPressure ratchets up from Trump administration, Musk, and allies ahead of planned Tesla Takedown mass protests