China in the world: How Beijing rules at home and abroad
Sep 12, 2023 — 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
The Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) and the Research Chair in Taiwan Studies at the University of Ottawa are pleased to partner in presenting this hybrid event.
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China in the world: How Beijing rules at home and abroad
Join us for a conversation with Bethany Allen, China reporter at Axios to discuss her new book as well the Chinese government's disinformation and foreign interference campaigns.
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About our speaker
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian
As the China reporter at Axios, Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian writes high-impact investigations, exclusives, and analyses about China, with a focus on how China projects power and influence beyond its own borders. Currently based in Taipei, Taiwan, she is the author of Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World published by HarperCollins (see BEIJING RULES | Kirkus Reviews ). Before joining Axios, she served as the lead reporter for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' China Cables project – a major leak of classified Chinese government documents revealing the inner workings of mass internment camps in Xinjiang – for which she received the Robert D. G. Lewis Watchdog Award, the top prize awarded annually by the Society of Professional Journalists DC Dateline Awards. She was previously a reporter at Foreign Policy magazine, where she chronicled how China wields political influence in the US and beyond.