Keith B. Richburg, Director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong, spent more than 20 years overseas for The Washington Post. Now a Professor of Practice in Hong Kong, he teaches courses on Feature Writing, Covering China and Covering Global Affairs, while continuing his career as a freelance writer and an author. In 2022, Richburg joined Washington Post Opinions as a Global Opinions columnist.
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Recent Articles
Why Hong Kong’s economic free fall is partly self-inflicted
By Keith Richburg
/ October 26, 2022
THE WASHINGTON POST - For a snapshot of Hong Kong’s economic malaise, walk through the once-heaving entertainment district of Lan...
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Opinion – What we can learn from the people who are voting with their feet
By Keith Richburg
/ October 4, 2022
THE WASHINGTON POST - It has long been a truism that if you want to know how people feel about...
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Opinion – Holding presidents accountable for their crimes is what democracies do
By Keith Richburg
/ July 27, 2022
THE WASHINGTON POST - Now that the House Jan. 6 select committee has laid out extensive evidence of Donald Trump’s...
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Opinion – Hong Kong was not supposed to look like this
By Keith Richburg
/ June 28, 2022
THE WASHINGTON POST - Hong Kong was not supposed to look like this, 25 years after the end of British...
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Opinion: Can China’s choice for leader of Hong Kong succeed where others failed?
By Keith Richburg
/ April 20, 2022
In the 25 years since China assumed sovereignty over Hong Kong, Beijing’s track record in appointing the city’s top leader...
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So much for Xi Jinping’s triumphal year
By Keith Richburg
/ March 19, 2022
THE WASHINGTON POST - This was supposed to be Chinese President Xi Jinping’s year of triumph. A successful Winter Olympics...
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China faces a new, uneasy balancing act on Russia and Ukraine
By Keith Richburg
/ March 5, 2022
THE WASHINGTON POST - It might have seemed like a good idea when Chinese President Xi Jinping signed on to...
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From a local and an expat, two stories of Hong Kong — and similar worries
By keith
/ February 11, 2022
THE WASHINGTON POST - China’s communist authorities in Beijing and their handpicked leaders in Hong Kong have been busy lately...
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From Beijing 2008 to Beijing 2022: fourteen years and a world of difference
By Keith Richburg
/ February 3, 2022
THE STRATEGIST - When China last hosted the Olympics, in the summer of 2008, the country was a vastly different place....
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The best novels set in Africa about journalists, diplomats, and spies
By Keith Richburg
/ November 2, 2021