Humphrey Hawksley has reported on key trends, events and conflicts from all over the world.
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Humphrey Hawksley's work as a BBC foreign correspondent has taken him to crises on every continent. He was expelled from Sri Lanka, opened the BBC’s television bureau in China, arrested in Serbia and initiated a global campaign against enslaved children in the chocolate industry. The campaign continues today.
Read Humphrey's recent reports and dispatches from the famous BBC program From Our Own Correspondent.
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China – A Less than Happy Birthday
China’s October commemoration of the Communist Party’s 70 years in power was extravagant, artistic and disciplined. It ushered in the next decade with verve reminiscent of that displayed at the 60th anniversary ten years earlier, but with one significant difference. Back then, Beijing had just … Read More
Taiwan holds lessons for ‘good’ and ‘bad’ dictatorships
Beijing should follow Taipei's model of gradual liberalization. In 1979, not long after America's Jan 1. recognition of Beijing's Communist regime as the legitimate government of China, former U.S. President Richard Nixon returned to China and was feted as a hero for his groundbreaking visit to … Read More
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