Sophie Richardson is the advocacy director of Human Rights Watch’s Asia Division and oversees the organization’s work on China. Her book on Chinese foreign policy is forthcoming from Columbia University Press, and she has also published on domestic Chinese political reform, democratization, and human rights in Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, and the Philippines. She has testified before the European Parliament and the US Senate and House of Representatives. She has provided commentary to the BBC, CNN, the Far Eastern Economic Review, Foreign Policy, National Public Radio, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia, the Hopkins-Nanjing Program, and Oberlin College.

Sophie Richardson's Foreign Policy blog

Articles

"What About China's Dirty Secrets?," The Daily Beast, November 15, 2009

"America Needs Human Rights in China," The Wall Street Journal, November 4, 2009

"China's Assault on the Rule of Law," Far Eastern Economic Review, September 9, 2009

"China in Denial," Far Eastern Economic Review, February 22, 2009