Author

Peter Harmsen, a former history student at National Taiwan University, has been a foreign correspondent in East Asia for two decades. He has focused mainly on the Chinese-speaking countries, but has reported from nearly every corner of the region, including Mongolia and North Korea. His reports have appeared in the Financial Times and the Far Eastern Economic Review, and he has also worked for Bloomberg and the Economist Intelligence Unit. He spent 11 years in China for the French news agency AFP, and he is currently the agency’s bureau chief in Taiwan.