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Katrina Northrop

Katrina Northrop

Staff Writer

katrina@thewire.media

Katrina Northrop is a journalist based in Washington, D.C. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Providence Journal, and SupChina. She earned her Master’s in Global Affairs as a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University, and earned her bachelor’s degree from Brown University, where she studied International Development, with a focus on China. In 2023, Katrina…

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Katrina Northrop is a journalist based in Washington, D.C. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Providence Journal, and SupChina. She earned her Master’s in Global Affairs as a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University, and earned her bachelor’s degree from Brown University, where she studied International Development, with a focus on China. In 2023, Katrina Northrop won the SOPA Award for Young Journalists for a “standout and impactful body of investigative work on China’s economic influence.”

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Articles

The DNA Distortion

ANDE, a U.S. biotechnology company, promised a "faster way to a safer world" with its revolutionary rapid DNA testing machine. But by selling its innovation to China's police force and public security apparatus, it has instead invited questions about the role of U.S. technologies in...

Washington’s Xinjiang Fix

The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which is now two years old, is one of the most ambitious pieces of human rights legislation ever passed in the United States. But, by banning the import of goods made in Xinjiang, it is also a signifiant trade...