Antony Dapiran

Antony Dapiran is a Hong Kong-based lawyer and writer. In the arena of corporate finance in the Greater China market, Dapiran has advised China’s largest companies on capital-raising transactions that have been transformational for the Chinese business and economic landscape. Dapiran was educated at the University of Melbourne and Peking University, and he has resided between Hong Kong and Beijing for over 20 years. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

Dapiran has written and presented extensively on China and Hong Kong. His views have been widely quoted, including in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Australian Financial Review. His writing has appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, The South China Morning Post, Nikkei Asia Review, Hong Kong Free Press, News Corp’s Business Spectator, ArtAsiaPacific, and the LA Review of Books’ China Blog. His book City of Protest: A Recent History of Dissent in Hong Kong was published by Penguin in 2017.

State Department Aide Charged for Hiding Gifts from Chinese Agents

A veteran State Department employee who held a Top Secret clearance and did three tours in China is facing criminal charges for allegedly covering up tens of thousands of dollars in gifts she and an associate took from Chinese agents.

Suzanne Sataline

Suzanne Sataline is an award-winning correspondent whose work has been published by Foreign Policy, The New York Times, The Economist, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Popular Science, and Pacific Standard. Sataline was a national correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, covering religion. Between 2013 and 2015, while based in Hong Kong, she covered the city’s democracy movement. In 2001, she lived in Russia and has returned to the country on reporting trips. She is a 2017 Alicia Patterson fellow focusing on Hong Kong’s politics. Before that, she was awarded a Nieman fellowship at Harvard University, a Knight Fellowship in International Journalism, and a Pew Fellowship in International Journalism. She has taught at Columbia University, the City University of New York, the University of Hong Kong, and in classrooms and newsrooms in Tbilisi, Georgia and Baku, Azerbaijan. In May, she will be awarded a Masters of Fine Arts from Columbia University’s School of the Arts in nonfiction writing. She’s currently researching a book about Hong Kong.

China Has an Irrational Fear of a “Black Invasion” Bringing Drugs, Crime, and Interracial Marriage

A Chinese politician proudly shared with reporters his proposal on how to “solve the problem of the black population in Guangdong.” The province is widely known in China to have many African migrants.

Trump’s First Test in Asia, Part II

A China in the World Podcast

While President Trump appoints new officials to his administration and reviews policy frameworks, Asia-Pacific leaders are moving ahead. Since taking office, Trump has grappled with consequential developments in the region, ranging from North Korea’s ballistic missile tests to the removal of South Korea’s Park Geun-hye. In part one of this two-part podcast, Paul Haenle discusses the future of U.S. strategy in the Asia-Pacific under the Trump administration with Dr.

China Poised to Take Lead on Climate After Trump’s Move to Undo Policies

President Trump’s signing of an executive order on Tuesday aimed at undoing many of the Obama administration’s climate change policies flips the roles of the two powers.