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Lucy Hornby

Lucy Hornby is an award-winning foreign correspondent, who reported from Asia for many years for the Financial Times, Reuters and Dow Jones. She was a 2020 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard and a visiting fellow at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. She is currently a non-resident Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and…

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Lucy Hornby is an award-winning foreign correspondent, who reported from Asia for many years for the Financial Times, Reuters and Dow Jones. She was a 2020 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard and a visiting fellow at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. She is currently a non-resident Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

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The Mother, the Son and the War

The Mother, the Son and the War

On Wednesday Xi Jinping presided over a Beijing military parade celebrating the 80th anniversary of Japan’s World War II defeat. Eighty-eight years ago his mother, Qi Xin, watched Japanese troops march into the city, at the outset of a conflict that would define her formative...