Sophie Richardson
Sophie Richardson serves as the China Director at Human Rights Watch. She has overseen the organization’s research and advocacy on China since 2006, and has published extensively on human rights and political reform in the country and across Southeast Asia. She has testified to the Canadian Parliament, European Parliament, and the United States Senate and House of Representatives. Dr. Richardson is the author of China, Cambodia, and the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence (Columbia University Press, Dec. 2009), an in-depth examination of China's foreign policy since 1954's Geneva Conference, including rare interviews with Chinese policy makers. She speaks Mandarin, and received her doctorate from the University of Virginia and her BA from Oberlin College.
Videos
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Obama in China - Rights Watch #20, November 17, 2009
Tiananmen: China's Unhealed Wound, May 12, 2009
Articles Authored
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February 23, 2015
China: How the West Was Lost
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January 7, 2015
Dispatches: Making 2015 ‘Unforgettable’ in China
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December 11, 2014
Chinese trade can’t blind SA to rights abuses
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December 10, 2014
Dispatches: China – A Modern-Day Inquisition
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December 9, 2014
Dispatches: EU Brings Some Transparency to Dialogue with China
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November 14, 2014
Why should we grovel at China’s feet?
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September 28, 2014
Dispatches: Political Earthquake in Hong Kong
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September 23, 2014
Britain Betrays Hong Kong… Again
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September 17, 2014
In China, Big Companies are Learning the Business of Human Rights