Every international story seems to lead to China these days. Look at food, medicine, trade, tobacco, fishing, climate change, and international aid, just for example, and a Chinese angle soon becomes clear. How do we report accurately on the world's second largest economy, follow the trails of Chinese investment, and work with our colleagues in the People's Republic? Here are three extraordinary journalists who bring different but complementary perspectives to the issue: Ying Chan, who has helped pioneer investigative and data journalism in the region, working from her base at the University of Hong Kong
Journalism and Media Studies Centre; Singapore native Reg Chua, who oversaw development of the groundbreaking
Connected China, the interactive mapping of who runs China; and Ji Tianqin, part of a new generation of Chinese investigative journalists, whose team at the gutsy
Southern Weekly produced an eight-part series helping expose the Bo Xilai case, one of China’s largest ever political scandals.