Australia-China correspondents panel 1

On March 17 2015 ACRI held the first event in our China Correspondents Series.

Our panel comprised Australian journalists who reported from Beijing. What were their bottom line conclusions about how China works? How did they cultivate sources? What do their experiences tell us about China's current role in world affairs?

Watch the video of the discussion above as our Director Bob Carr questions Rowan Callick (The Australian), Trevor Watson (ABC) and Helene Chung (ABC).

View the full event photo gallery here.

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Speakers

Helene Chung

Helene Chung was an ABC Beijing correspondent during 1983-1986, the first non-white reporter on Australian TV and the first female posted abroad by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Rowan Callick

Rowan Callick has written substantially about China for almost twenty years, including two spells as a China correspondent – from 1996-2000 for the Australian Financial Review, based in Hong Kong, and from 2006-2009 for The Australian, based in Beijing.

Trevor Watson

Trevor Watson worked at the ABC for two decades. A Walkley Award winner, he was ABC Beijing bureau chief when tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square in June 1989 and the People's Liberation Army opened fire on thousands of pro-democracy students.