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
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
There are two Hong Kongs. China is betting one can survive without the other.
By Keith Richburg
/ September 5, 2021
THE WASHINGTON POST - Hong Kong now is increasingly a story of two cities occupying the same compact space, but...
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America tried nation-building in Afghanistan — but never committed to it
By Keith Richburg
/ August 21, 2021
THE WASHINGTON POST - The United States went into Afghanistan to avenge the 9/11 attacks. We stayed promising to rebuild...
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Monthly Newsletter – May 2021
By Keith Richburg
/ May 3, 2021
May 3 marks World Press Freedom Day, and this year, the journalistic freedom landscape looks particularly bleak, especially here in Asia....
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Beijing’s cancel culture is crushing Hong Kong
By Keith Richburg
/ April 8, 2021
THE STRATEGIST - In its efforts to remake Hong Kong into a city in its own image, the Chinese Communist...
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