Claire Reade

on November 28, 2016

Claire Reade is a Senior Associate with the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Senior Counsel at Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. From 2010 to 2014, she served as Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for China Affairs in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Prior to that position, she was the Chief Counsel for China Trade Enforcement from 2006 to 2010.

Reade has litigated numerous U.S. agency proceedings and court appears, and has represented clients on NAFTA and WTO-related goods and services. She is a frequent lecturer on international trade issues.

Should Facebook Self-Censor to Enter the Chinese Market?

A ChinaFile Conversation

By Kaiser Kuo, Clay Shirky & more on November 28, 2016

The social network Facebook has reportedly developed software to suppress posts from users’ feeds in targeted geographic areas, a feature created to help the giant social media network gain access to China, where it is blocked. Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has long been courting China’s leaders, studying Mandarin, and talking with Chinese Internet executives. How far should he and his company go in order to grow? At what expense?

Andrew McLaughlin

on November 27, 2016

Andrew McLaughlin is a New York City-based tech executive. He established and led Google’s public policy operation from 2004 to 2009, managing the company’s relationship with the Chinese government during the period in which Google entered that market. He chairs the board of Access Now, an NGO that fights online censorship and unlawful surveillance around the world.