Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian is a China reporter at Axios, where she writes the Axios China newsletter and covers China's role in the world from Taipei. Before joining Axios, she served as the lead reporter for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' (ICIJ) China Cables project, a leak of classified Chinese government documents about Xinjiang. She also previously reported and edited for Foreign Policy. This summer, she published Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World (2023). In this interview, we discussed her new book and China’s ‘authoritarian economic statecraft’.
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian.Illustration by Lauren Crow
Q: The book begins at the outset of Covid-19. Why start there? What about the Chinese response to Covid made it an important inflection point?
A: What I noticed unfolding in real time, starting in late February, early March 2020, was that the Chinese government began using certain levers of influence, and power
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