Emma Belmonte is a freelance journalist and a China Research Fellow for the Association for International Affairs (AMO). After gaining expertise in Chinese-speaking regions at the University of Oxford, she won the GEO magazine Young Reporter Grant (2024) launching her work as a reporter for media outlets such as GEO, Asialyst, Figaro Magazine, and the Green European Journal. She has conducted on-the-ground reporting in both Taiwan and China, namely covering daily life in Taiwan’s Matsu Islands amidst cross-strait tensions, and the contrasting realities behind China’s manufacturing industry. She is also the co-creator and co-host of the podcast Parlons du Congo which explores the depths of the war in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Belmonte holds a Master’s degree in Modern Chinese Studies from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon.
