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Richard McGregor (born 1958) is an Australian journalist, writer, and author. He is currently working as a Senior Fellow at the Lowey Insititute based in Sydney, Australia. He previously was based in Japan and also other locations such as Shanghai, Taiwan, Sydney, Melbourne, Washington DC and London.


Life

Richard McGregor was born in
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. He has worked as a journalist in Taiwan, Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne, and was the chief political correspondent, Japan correspondent, and China correspondent for ''
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''. He also worked for the ''
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'', and is the former bureau chief for the ''
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''. McGregor wrote '' The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers'', published by
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from
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in the UK and
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in the US in June 2010. He lived in London, and moved to
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, in 2011, to be the ''Financial Times'' bureau chief. He appeared on the Charlie Rose show on 18 January 2011 to discuss Chinese President
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's visit to Washington D.C.; and on 6 September 2017 to discuss Asian, especially Chinese-Japanese, international relations, and the United States' role in Asia.


Notable works

* ''Japan Swings : Politics, Culture and Sex in the New Japan'' (Allen & Unwin, 1996) * '' The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers'' (Allen Lane, 2010) * * ''Xi Jinping: The Backlash'' (Penguin Random House Australia, 2019)


Awards

McGregor won the 2010 Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Editorial Excellence Award for reporting on the
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Riots; and prior to that, the SOPA Award in 2008 for Editorial Intelligences.


References


External links


From Lowy Institute for International Policy audio presentation by Richard McGregor

Daily Beast review of The Party
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