Vincent Ni is the Asia Editor at NPR, where he leads a team of Asia-based correspondents whose reporting spans from Afghanistan to Japan, and across all NPR platforms. In the last decade, Ni has reported from the Middle East, Europe, and Asia, on major global events such as the Arab Spring from Egypt in 2011, the Maidan protests from Ukraine in 2014, and the U.S. presidential elections in 2012 and 2016. Before joining NPR in 2022, Ni was the China Affairs Correspondent and Bureau Chief for The Guardian newspaper and its Sunday edition, The Observer. Prior to The Guardian, he spent seven years at the BBC in London. Ni holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Oxford. He was a 2018 World Fellow at Yale University, and was one of Asia Society’s Asia 21 fellows in 2023.
Last Updated: July 22, 2024
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What’s Behind China’s Recent Internet Crackdown?
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09.09.13
What Are Chinese Attitudes Toward a U.S. Strike in Syria?
Chen Weihua:Chinese truly believe that there is no military solution to the Syrian crisis. On the contrary, a U.S. air strike would only worsen the situation there. Chinese have seen many failures of U.S. intervention in the Middle East in the past...