Laurie Chen is a China Correspondent at Reuters' Beijing bureau, covering politics and general news. Before joining Reuters, she reported on China for six years at Agence France-Presse and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. She speaks fluent Mandarin.
Mei Mei Chu specializes in domestic governance, human rights, and foreign policy engagements. She previously specialized in China’s agriculture sector, reporting on food security and the U.S.-China trade war. Prior to her posting in China, she was Reuters Commodities Correspondent in Malaysia, where she exposed forced labour abuses across the country’s manufacturing and agricultural companies. She began her journalism career at Malaysia’s largest English-language newspaper and is an alumna of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network. She brings a cross-disciplinary lens to her coverage of policy and diplomacy.
