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Bethany Allen

Bethany Allen is Head of Program for China Investigations and Analysis at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Prior to this, she was the China reporter for Axios. Other former roles include lead reporter for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ China Cables project, national security correspondent for the Daily Beast, and reporter and editor at Foreign Policy magazine. A fluent Mandarin…

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Bethany Allen is Head of Program for China Investigations and Analysis at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Prior to this, she was the China reporter for Axios. Other former roles include lead reporter for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ China Cables project, national security correspondent for the Daily Beast, and reporter and editor at Foreign Policy magazine. A fluent Mandarin speaker, she previously lived in China for four years. She now lives in Taipei.

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Libel Lawfare

In recent years, several large Chinese companies have filed defamation suits against small organizations or individual researchers, leading to a strange reality: Even as the general rhetoric against China has become more hawkish, many in the West have grown increasingly reluctant to publicly criticize China...

Muting Zoom

Chinese interference in the video conferencing company's operations is a stark lesson that governments need to get involved in countering Beijing's influence.