The ongoing anti-government protests in Hong Kong present one of the biggest challenges to Chinese rule in the city in decades. They also present a massive challenge to China’s rulers at home, with ...
Yuan Yang
Yuan Yang is a Beijing correspondent at the Financial Times covering China's technology sector and technology policy. She is particularly interested in censorship, internet controls, and civil society movements. Yuan is also Vice-President of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China, which seeks to protect press freedoms.
Before moving to China in 2016, she wrote about development economics as a Marjorie Deane intern for the Economist in London. Yuan is the co-founder of Rethinking Economics, a charity headquartered in Manchester, UK that campaigns to make economics teaching more relevant to the 21st century. Yuan's family is from China and she grew up in the UK.