Robyn Dixon was a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. She has reported from China, sub-Saharan Africa, Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia and other parts of the former Soviet Union, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq. She left The Times in October 2019.
Latest From This Author
China sends a message of military might on the 70th anniversary of its founding — drumming up national pride and loyalty to the Communist Party.
President Xi Jinping leads a parade designed to send a confident message that China’s military has modernized rapidly, amassing advanced military technology to rival U.S. power.
In 70 years, China’s communist state has seen a stunning economic and technological rise. It has also seen famine, massacres and harsh repression.
There will be 100,000 participants in China’s 70th anniversary military parade with planes and weapons, but will we see China’s long-range DF-41 ICBM?
Hong Kong’s new protest anthem has singing flash mobs springing up everywhere, much to the further consternation of Beijing.
One of the last of Africa’s “Big Men,†Mugabe became an international pariah before being driven from power.
Hong Kong riot police violence is traumatizing the population. Here’s why eyewitnesses are having nightmares or cannot sleep.
The government in Beijing is unlikely to give ground in its efforts to exercise its authority over the territory. The pro-democracy protesters appear just as committed to their cause.
Hong Kongers defy a police ban and take to the streets to protest the arrests of pro-democracy activists.
Prominent Hong Kong activists Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow were picked up by police Friday morning