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This week CDT ChinaCast focuses on China’s role in Africa by talking with Peter Bosshard, the policy director of International Rivers Network(IRN), a California-based environmental NGO. Bosshard and IRN have worked with global groups and communities to stop large and destructive dam projects. They were quite successful until facing a real challenge from China, which […]

New York Times features writer and amateur photographer Howard French holds forth in one of the most voluminous editions of the Chinacast Foreign Correspondents Series so far. Based in Shanghai, French covers a wide swathe of China through a staggering variety of lenses”the Internet, business, demographics and social dislocation, mass incidents and marginal politics. He’s […]

This week’s edition of CDT ChinaCast‘s Foreign Correspondents Series features Ryoichi Hamamoto, former Beijing bureau chief for Yomiuri Shimbun. Hamamoto reported for Yomiuri for 30 years, including seven years covering China. Hamamoto’s interest in China goes back to his high school time when he became fascinated by Chinese characters. That experience lead him to foreign […]

This week ChinaCast moves its Foreign Correspondent series outside the familiar territory of Western journalism by talking with Yosuke Watanabe, Bejing bureau chief for Japan’s Kyodo News Agency. A senior foreign correspondent at Kyodo”one of the agency’s elite coterie of “China Hands””Watanabe has worked in Shanghai, Hong Kong and, most recently, Washington D.C., where he […]

This week’s edition of CDT ChinaCast‘s Foreign Correspondents Series features Jocelyn Ford, former China correspondent for American Public Media’s Marketplace Beijing bureau. Ford reported for Marketplace for over 10 years, including five years covering China. Most of her stories focused on the dramatic social and economic changes in China, the vast gap between rural and […]

This week’s edition of CDT ChinaCast‘s Foreign Correspondents Series features Jim Yardley, China correspondent for The New York Times Beijing bureau. Yardley has reported for NYT for nine years and he has covered China for over three years. In this edition, Yardley will speak of the biggest stories for each year he covered in China. […]

In this edition of CDT ChinaCast’s Foreign Correspondents Series, seven-year China veteran Mary Kay Magistad of Public Radio International in Beijing talks about rural challenges such as health care and a lack of substantive rural growth, environmental coverage, and positive prospects for the new young generation who don’t have much political baggage or memory of […]

In this edition of CDT ChinaCast‘s Foreign Correspondent Series, we talk with Jehangir Pocha, the Beijing correspondent for the Boston Globe. Pocha also writes frequently for the San Francisco Chronicle and other publications. He talks to ChinaCast about the harshness of nature for Chinese farmers compared with his home country, India; the “colonization” of Xinjiang; […]

This week’s CDT ChinaCast Foreign Correspondents Series features Cindy Sui, a reporter for the Bejing bureau of Agence France-Press who recently left her job to move to Taiwan with her husband (also a reporter). Before she left, Sui was one of the most dedicated chroniclers of the Chinese countryside, quietly chasing some of China’s most […]

In the new installment of the Foreign Correspondents Series, CDT ChinaCast talks with Luis Ramirez, the Beijing bureau chief for the Voice of America. Ramirez has covered China for three years. Earlier he served as VOA’s West Africa correspondent based in Ivory Coast and covered more than 20 countries in West and Central Africa. He […]