Richard is a Hong Kong-based Senior Editor at Engadget as well as the Editor-In-Chief at Engadget Chinese. Over the last 7.5 years, he witnessed the boom of Chinese smartphone brands and, more recently, hardware startups in this part of the world. He was one of the first international reporters to reach out to local companies such as Meizu, Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo, Vivo and OnePlus well before they drew worldwide attention. Richard also closely follows ASUS, HTC, DJI and various other tech companies.