Inside Contemporary Asia: Politics, Power, & Information | Buffett Conversation with James Griffiths

Watch the recording of our Buffett Conversation with James Griffiths and Yingdan Lu about China’s evolving political and information environment and the challenges of reporting from the region. Griffiths pulled from his experiences of over 14 years reporting from more than a dozen countries across Asia to discuss free speech and digital censorship in China.  

James Griffiths is a journalist and author of the critically acclaimed books The Great Firewall: How to Build & Control an Alternative Version of the Internet and Speak Not: Empire, Identity, & the Politics of Language. Griffiths is Asia correspondent for Canada’s national newspaper The Globe and Mail and has served as senior producer at CNN International. Yingdan Lu is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University’s School of Communication and studies how authoritarian governments use digital media and artificial intelligence to maintain their rule.