Michael Sheridan | Reporting in China | (Part 1)

“The world watching China, it was UNPRECEDENTED.” Michael Sheridan | Dateline Bangkok For this weeks episode of the Dateline Bangkok podcast, Tommy Walker speaks with Michael Sheridan. Michael Sheridan is a veteran foreign correspondent spending decades working in Europe, the Middle East and Asia and formerly of The Sunday Times, spending over 20 years as the newspaper’s Far East Correspondent. Sheridan reported from China in 1989 following the Tiananmen Square crackdown, as well as the 2014 and 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. Sheridan is also a best-selling author, with his latest work a biography of China President Xi Jinping titled, The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China. In part 1 of this episode, Sheridan discusses his own career and venture into journalism, his experiences in Hong Kong and China, a famous photo, and the three eras of China rule since 1949. Host: Tommy Walker Editor: Julian Hadden Music: Jonathan Head Subscribe to our YouTube channel and watch this episode: https://m.youtube.com/@fcctevents/podcasts Listen on Spotify: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/dateline-bangkok-podcast Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dateline-bangkok/id1787768088 For those of you in Bangkok, feel free to visit the FCCT for future events. If you would like to become a regular at the club, you can apply for club membership. https://www.fccthai.com 00:00 Dateline Bangkok Introduction 00:25 Introducing Michael Sheridan 01:02 Sheridan’s early career 02:45 1989 in China 03:52 Reporting from Shanghai 05:40 Never seen anything like it 08:57 The world watching China 10:20 Good journalism 11:02 Beijing 13:12 Tank man photo 14:49 Propaganda war today 15:48 Digital image issues 16:43 Losing the narrative 18:21 Writing and photography 20:35 Multimedia journalists today 23:03 Chinese citizen journalism 24:00 Three eras of Chinese leadership 25:40 Stand up, rich, strong 26:08 Is Xi Jinping strengthening China? 27:15 China 1949 - 2012 27:48 Under Xi 28:41 China as a superpower under Xi 30:34 The message is state control 32:17 End of part 1