Reporting from Xinjiang with Megha Rajagopalan
VIEW EVENT DETAILSPresented by ChinaFile and the Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
Watch a special conversation with BuzzFeed News correspondent Megha Rajagopalan, who discusses her on-the-ground reporting on China’s internment camps and other abuses of the ethnic Uyghur minority in Xinjiang with Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Ely Ratner.
This event is hosted by CNAS and ChinaFile, a project of the Center on U.S.-China Relations.
The talk is by invitation only, but community members can join by watching a livestream of the conversation above. Join and follow the conversation using #ReportingFromXinjiang on Twitter and Facebook.
Megha Rajagopalan is a world correspondent (formerly China bureau chief) with BuzzFeed News. She has reported extensively on digital privacy, security, and growing abuses in Xinjiang and reported from China for six years. She was a 2011 Fulbright fellow in Beijing, where she conducted research on the Chinese news media and was previously a research fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C.
Ely Ratner is the Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), where he is a member of the executive team and responsible for managing the Center’s research agenda, publications, and research staff. Ratner served from 2015 to 2017 as the deputy national security advisor to Vice President Joe Biden, and from 2011 to 2012 in the office of Chinese and Mongolian affairs at the State Department. He also previously worked in the U.S. Senate as a professional staff member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and in the office of Senator Joe Biden.
Please note that the event will be on the record.
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