Author
Keith Richburg
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Opinion – So much for Xi Jinping’s triumphal year
This was supposed to be Chinese President Xi Jinping’s year of triumph. A successful Winter Olympics were staged in Beijing. China’s economy was set to…
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Opinion – China faces a new, uneasy balancing act on Russia and Ukraine
It might have seemed like a good idea when Chinese President Xi Jinping signed on to a new “no limits” friendship deal with his Russian…
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From a local and an expat, two stories of Hong Kong — and similar worries
China’s communist authorities in Beijing and their handpicked leaders in Hong Kong have been busy lately trying to rewrite the recent tumultuous history of this…
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From Beijing 2008 to Beijing 2022: fourteen years and a world of difference
When China last hosted the Olympics, in the summer of 2008, the country was a vastly different place. The Beijing 2008 Summer Games was China’s…
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The best novels set in Africa about journalists, diplomats, and spies
I’ve been a journalist since high school and I spent 33 years as a reporter for The Washington Post, mostly as a foreign correspondent based…
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Booknotes Podcast with Keith Richburg
Keith Richburg, a native of Detroit, has been a print journalist for nearly his entire life. During his 30 years at the Washington Post he…
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Opinion – There are two Hong Kongs. China is betting one can survive without the other.
Hong Kong now is increasingly a story of two cities occupying the same compact space, but existing in parallel realities. One Hong Kong is populated…
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Opinion – America tried nation-building in Afghanistan — but never committed to it
The United States went into Afghanistan to avenge the 9/11 attacks. We stayed promising to rebuild the country — with President George W. Bush invoking,…