For years now the China "story" has been one of the most important beats to cover. But as China's role on the world stage has grown, so too have the challenges of covering the country. The very real d...
Marije Vlaskamp
After her history study and journalism post-doc, Marije Vlaskamp (1969) worked as a general news reporter. She mainly wrote about migration, human trafficking and human rights. She studied Mandarin Chinese at Peoples University in Beijing before she was posted in China in 2001. She covered Greater China and occasionally other Asian countries for 18 years for various newspapers, websites and news/documentary broadcasters. Since her return to the Netherlands she works as the East Asia specialist at the foreign news division of de Volkskrant, a major Dutch quality newspaper. In this role, her main focus is on the global impact of China's rise.
Photo credit: Lina Selg/de Volkskrant.
