Hannah Beech is Southeast Asia Bureau Chief for The New York Times. Previously, she was East Asia Bureau Chief for TIME magazine. She lives in Bangkok and has previously been based for TIME in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong.
Adam Segal is the Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow for China Studies and Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. His latest book, The Hacked World Order, provides an in-depth exploration of the issues that most states and large companies now confront in cyberspace. It covers everything from the Twitter wars over Gaza to German reactions to the Snowden leaks.
China, as it turns out, is looking elsewhere to get the lumber it needs.
Sill, Premier Li Keqiang argues his nation has ample tools to meet challenges facing the economy.
The draft requires network operators to comply with social morals and accept the supervision of the government and public.
Brexit is concrete evidence that democratic decision-making can lead to catastrophic results.
Uber’s new vision for China includes two new offerings, UberLIFE and Uber + Travel, which will roll out across China this year.
Yang Jiechi and Pham Binh Minh expressed a need for agreements that prevent rows from getting out of hand.
Noy Thrupkaew is an independent journalist who has researched human trafficking and labor exploitation since 2006. As an Open Society Fellow, she investigated the largest human trafficking cases in the United States, and explored ways to develop greater accountability in law-enforcement initiatives against forced prostitution. A contributing editor for The American Prospect and recipient of International Reporting Project, Investigative Fund, and Fulbright grants, Thrupkaew has reported from Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Iran, Morocco, and Cuba for outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, The Nation, Radio Netherlands, and Marie Claire. In 2015, she taught a seminar on transnational investigative journalism at Princeton University and gave a TED talk on human trafficking.
Shi Yi is a Shanghai-based journalist who has reported on the environment for The Paper since its launch in 2014, covering topics such as biodiversity and climate change. Since 2016, she has written for its English-language site Sixth Tone, also owned by the Shanghai United Media Group. She is also an Associate at Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism.
Shi filed a series of reports on the Kalamely Nature Reserve in Xinjiang, which has been repeatedly diminished to allow for mining, putting rare wildlife at risk. The reports got the attention of the Chinese central government, and a subsequent memo from Xi Jinping resulted in an undercover visit by Party Central Committee investigators, as well as a public visit by Zhang Chunxian, Xinjiang Party Secretary, during which plans for the most recent reduction of the reserve were halted. At the end of 2015 the plans were scrapped for good.
This, and other outstanding reports by Shi, won her the Journalist of the Year award at the 2016 China Environmental Press Awards. In the southern Africa country of Namibia, she investigated the illegal trade in ivory, posing as a buyer to make contact with traders of illegal animal products. On publication of her report local police raided an illegal marketplace. Such reports bolster the international fight against poaching and demonstrate China’s increased awareness of her international responsibilities.
