Event Coverage Highlight
Covering China: Journalism, Scholarship, and the Global Conversation
On Friday, October 3, the Johns Hopkins SAIS Institute for America, China, and the Future of Global Affairs (ACF) and the Overseas Press Club of America will jointly host an in-person event examining the state of journalistic and academic coverage of China.
Our first session will consider the hurdles that journalists and academics face when operating within China at present, and their evolving approaches to reporting and research. A second panel will assess the challenges that global correspondents and researchers face as they cover China’s global activities and influence, especially when the issues that intersect China’s global role-including artificial intelligence, trade and investment, and new energy-are themselves complex and rapidly evolving.
What are the perspectives of top journalists and researchers on the current state of reporting on China? What do we know and not know – and what assumptions and narratives may need revision? What are our collective blind spots? What strategies can help strengthen the quality of research and reporting, and more accurately frame the scope and scale of the China challenge for U.S. audiences?
Friday, October 3, 2025
9:30ạm: Opening Remarks
9:45am: Session 1- Covering China from Within: Problems and Processes
11:00am: Session 2—China, America, and the World: New Frontiers
12:00pm: Networking Lunch
Kenney Link Auditorium, Johns Hopkins SAIS
(555 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW)
