On China
UNDER THE SLOGAN "peaceful rising", China is "selling"
itself to Africa and Latin America as the model for ending poverty?
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On India
INDIA'S ELEVATION TO nuclear acceptability comes with a price. It cannot
simply accept its new privileges and stay quiet?
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On Iraq
IRAQIS UNDERSTAND that whatever emerges here will not be a beacon of
freedom. America has to accept that, too, and decide what level of non-democratic
rule is acceptable?
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Reporter
HUMPHREY HAWKSLEY IS a leading BBC foreign correspondent, author and commentator on world affairs.
He joined the BBC in 1983 and took up his first BBC foreign posting in 1986 to cover the Tamil civil war in Sri Lanka. He didn't stay long. He was expelled after six months for revealing atrocities against civilians. From there, he specialized in the rapid and often painful growth of Asia: India as it fought religious wars and threw off the shackles of its closed economic system; The Philippines as it was rocked by rebellions; Hong Kong as it prepared to move from British colonialism to Chinese rule; and Beijing where he opened the BBC's first ever television bureau.
It was in China, with Financial Times Correspondent Simon Holberton, that Hawksley wrote Dragon Strike the first in the internationally acclaimed 'Future History' series, that explored how a hostile China might plan to weaken the United States in the Asia-Pacific. Over the next five years, Hawksley published Dragon Fire that told of a conflict between India and an alliance of China and Pakistan, and he finished the trilogy with The Third World War.
In 1997, Hawksley moved back to London from where he has reported economic and political trends throughout the world. In Latin America, he has examined Washington's role in the collapse, then resurrection of the Argentine economy and China's growing influence in the region. From the United States he has reported on the post Nine Eleven shake-up of intelligence agencies; From Africa, he has examined abusive child labor in the chocolate industry, and from Asia he has constantly asked why, if these nations can move on and get rich, do others founder and fight. Since Nine Eleven he has reported widely on the War on Terror and Iraq from the Middle East, Washington and the wider developing world.
Among his recent television films are: Bitter Sweet that examines how the billion dollar chocolate industry uses child labor to farm its raw product - cocoa; and Old Man Atom that reports on the global nuclear program.
