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.
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Recent Articles
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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Monthly Newsletter – March 2021
By Keith Richburg
/ March 9, 2021
The good news is that there is light at the end of our long, dark pandemic tunnel in the form...
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The Vanishing Hong Kong: China’s Latest Casulaty
By Keith Richburg
/ March 1, 2021
AMERICAN CONSEQUENCES - Hong Kong’s handover from British to Chinese sovereignty came at midnight on July 1, 1997. But China’s...
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Trump talked the talk, but Biden may prove tougher on China
By Keith Richburg
/ January 18, 2021
THE STRATEGIST – Is President-elect Joe Biden’s administration set to go soft on China? That seems to be the view...
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Monthly Newsletter – December 2020
By Keith Richburg
/ December 8, 2020
The year 2020 has been full of unsettling news. The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted life’s rhythms and routines. Live events...
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America survives the Trump years
By Keith Richburg
/ November 16, 2020
THE STRATEGIST – In the end, the result didn’t come as quickly or definitively as many wanted, and as the...
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Monthly Newsletter: November 2020
By Keith Richburg
/ November 5, 2020
The most unusual American election in a lifetime—conducted during a pandemic, with record high early voting and no official conclusion...
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US media shows it’s learned the lessons of 2016 in denying Trump an ‘October surprise’
By Keith Richburg
/ October 30, 2020
THE STRATEGIST - With the US presidential election drawing to a close, everyone, it seems, is absorbing the lessons from...
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