IMPORTANT NOTICE

'China's Media Story in Two Perspectives' will no longer be taking place on Thursday 13 February. We are working to reschedule this for a later date, and will update this event page as soon as possible when confirmed.

This panel discusses media coverage of China in a world where public dialogue about China is increasingly polarised, and China’s media serves as an important soft power tool.

Coverage of China varies vastly across the West and China itself, often leading to tension and accusations of bias from both sides. As a crucial component of Chinese and Western soft power, the media is a crucial component of this. It therefore makes sense to examine both perspectives and explore how to reconcile the two. This panel does exactly this.

Liu Ge is Managing Director of China Global Television Network (CGTN) Europe.

Vincent Ni is currently a Senior Journalist at the BBC​​​​, where he ​reports​ ​in both English and Chinese​. Over the past decade, he has reported from Asia, the Middle East, Europe and North America.​ He regularly appears on ​the BBC’s domestic and international TV, radio and online platforms, providing analysis on China’s domestic and foreign policies to the ​broadcaster’s global audience. Prior to the BBC, he was a correspondent for Caixin Media in China, tracking China’s global footprint in the Middle East, Europe and North America.

Bingchun Meng is Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Media and Communications at LSE. In addition to this, she serves as Programme Director for the MSc Global Media and Communications (LSE & Fudan). Before joining LSE, she was a post-doc fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, where she worked at the Centre for Global Communication Studies and also taught courses on Chinese media.

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