Trade War and Censors Dampen China’s Giant Tech Scene

Trade War and Censors Dampen China’s Giant Tech Scene
Game developer Wang Miaoyi works in her studio that is located in her appartment in Beijing on Oct. 29, 2018. Thomas Peter/Reuters
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BEIJING—Wang Miaoyi’s small one-bedroom apartment, which doubles as her design studio, is overflowing with game magazines, figurines and boxes of sci-fi novels.

The 30-year old game developer is a child of the county’s tech boom: she studied at one of China’s top universities and her company hit it big with an award-winning game that was published on Nintendo’s Switch console and the PC gaming platform Steam, with plans for roll-out on other game platforms.