Eva Dou

Eva Dou is an award-winning journalist based in Washington, D.C., covering technology policy for The Washington Post. A Detroit native, she earned her journalism degree from the University of Missouri and has built a distinguished career reporting on the intersection of technology, business, and geopolitics.

From 2015 to 2020, Dou served as a foreign correspondent in Beijing, first for The Washington Post and later for The Wall Street Journal, where she reported extensively on China’s tech industry and its growing influence on the global stage.

She is the author of House of Huawei: Inside the Secret World of China’s Most Powerful Company, longlisted for the 2025 Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award. The book presents a deeply reported account of Huawei’s rise and the elusive figure behind it, founder Ren Zhengfei. Through in-depth interviews and meticulous archival research, Dou traces how Huawei became a global powerhouse at the center of geopolitical tensions, illuminating the company’s entanglement with issues of surveillance, influence, national ambition, and international power struggles.