AWW22 Reporting China - Bill Birtles, Trevor Watson and Sue-Lin Wong

In conversation with Melissa Roberts.


When correspondents Bill Birtles and Michael Smith abruptly left
China in September 2020 after late night visits from China’s
notorious secret police, it marked the first time in decades that
Australia had no journalists on the ground. Bill went on to write
The Truth About China: Propaganda, Patriotism and the Search for
Truth. He joins Trevor Watson, the co-editor of The Beijing
Bureau, a collection of essays from some of Australia’s leading
correspondents based in China from 1970 to the near present, and
Hong Kong-based China correspondent Sue-Lin Wong, to discuss
their experiences and insights, in a conversation led by Melissa
Roberts, co-editor of The Beijing Bureau.