- Keith B. Richburg
- Staff Writer
China correspondent Keith B. Richburg has spent more than 20 years overseas for The Washington Post, serving as bureau chief in Paris, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Nairobi and Manila. He covered the invasion in Iraq, the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the U.S. military intervention in Somalia, the genocide in Rwanda, and the 1997 handover of Hong Kong to China. He was the Post’s foreign editor from 2005 to 2007 and the New York bureau chief from 2007 to 2009. A native Detroiter, he came to the Post as a summer intern in 1978 and has been with the paper ever since. He has a B.A. from the University of Michigan, and a master’s degree in international relations from The London School of Economics. He was Journalist In Residence at the East-West Center in Honolulu in 1990-91. He is the author of “Out Of America; A Black Man Confronts Africa” (Basic Books, 1997). He speaks French and is currently studying Mandarin Chinese.
In China, a recoil against xenophobia
Campaign against foreigners draws more ridicule than support, particularly online.
In China, rising anger at North Korea
The abduction and abuse of 28 Chinese fishermen by North Koreans has infuriated the public.
In Chongqing, Bo Xilai’s legacy and popularity endure
Longtime residents of Chongqing hail the transformation during his four-year reign of their inland city.
Chen arrives in the U.S.
The blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng completed a four-week journey from confinement in a rural Chinese village to the freedom of New York.
- In Chen’s frightened village, surveillance increases, thugs keep outsiders at bay
- Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, confined to hospital, awaits word on his fate
- China expels al-Jazeera reporter as media relations sour
- Chen says U.S. diplomats and friends are still barred from visiting him
- With Chen Guangcheng news on Twitter, China’s censors lost control
- Chinese newspaper apologizes for anti-Chen, anti-U.S. editorial
- China strikes deal for Chen Guangcheng to study abroad, U.S. officials say
- Activist Chen Guangcheng says China not honoring deal with U.S. officials
