Gerry Shih - Taipei, Taiwan - Washington Post

<p>The podcast tradition of foreign correspondents getting ejected from countries continues. For Gerry Shih, China Correspondent for the Washington Post, there was the added twist of getting kicked out during a global pandemic. On the eve of his reassignment as WaPo’s India bureau chief, Gerry looks back at his time covering China, which he is convinced is now a bigger story than ever.</p> <p>Countries featured: China, Tajikistan, USA, Mongolia</p> <p>Publications featured: Associated Press, Reuters, Washington Post, New York Times</p> <p>Gerry discusses his childhood between California, China and Illinois (6:35), a wakeup call to the realities of journalism on his first day as an NYT intern (14:50), working in the Reuters’ Beijing Bureau alongside Jake (19:45), jumping to AP where he reported some of the biggest stories about Uyghur persecution (25:38), getting kicked out of China with a raft of other American correspondents (33:54), the challenges of reporting on China from the outside (41:37), the importance of digging into big stories and not letting go (49:37), his story finding a secret Chinese military base in Tajikistan (53:40), and the lightning round (1:03:28).</p> <p> </p> <p>Here are links to some of the things we talked about:</p> <p>Gerry’s story on China using U.S. computer chips to build weapons - <a href='https://wapo.st/3sMu5og'>https://wapo.st/3sMu5og</a></p> <p>His scoop with a first look inside China’s Uyghur indoctrination camps - <a href='https://bit.ly/3ep7Uzc'>https://bit.ly/3ep7Uzc</a></p> <p>Several of his other key Uyghur stories - <a href='https://bit.ly/32NuKuS'>https://bit.ly/32NuKuS</a></p> <p>His story on a Chinese military outpost in Tajikistan - <a href='https://wapo.st/32M7Sfi'>https://wapo.st/32M7Sfi</a></p> <p>Fresh Air on NPR - <a href='https://n.pr/3xjc3gK'>https://n.pr/3xjc3gK</a></p> <p>ESPN’s The Jump podcast - <a href='https://es.pn/2QXZ5UN'>https://es.pn/2QXZ5UN</a></p> <p>The Lowe Post NBA podcast - <a href='https://es.pn/2QWei8U'>https://es.pn