Stephen McDonell, the BBC's China Correspondent, takes the stage for an evening on one of the world's most complex and tightly controlled media environments. Drawing on more than twenty years of reporting from the country, he looks back at the economic booms and political shifts he has covered, as well as the particular difficulties of working through global lockdowns.
The conversation focuses on how foreign journalism in China has changed, what everyday reporting looks like under state surveillance, and how relations between China and the West are shifting, seen from the ground by someone who has been there throughout.
