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Experts Look Ahead As New UN Leader Takes Helm by Chad Bouchard Namibia and Liberia THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, NEW YORK, NY • October 2016 Experts Look Ahead as New UN Leader Takes Helm By Chad Bouchard Namibia and Liberia. Just as coverage of the US presi- Abdelkader Abba- dential election reaches fever pitch, di, UN correspondent the United Nations is bracing for its and former director of own transition as the General As- the UN’s Department sembly considers Portugal’s former of Political Affairs, was prime minister, António Guterres, to less forgiving. replace Ban Ki-moon as Secretary “[The UN’s] struc- General. tures are old, its financ- On Oct. 4, on the eve of a key es inadequate. It needs straw poll among Security Coun- dynamic and vision- cil members, the OPC hosted a ary leadership. Those Chad Bouchard discussion about the UN’s current means are necessary Clockwise from upper left: Stephen Schlesinger, Abdelkader Ab- role in tempering global conflicts for the organization to badi, Richard Roth, Linda Fasulo and Ian Williams. and crises. be able to face the is- lion, while only $1 million is allo- Stephen Schlesinger, a historian sues of our turbulent world,” he said. cated for preventative diplomacy. and author, said the UN has to over- “We delay because of lack of Ian Williams, UN correspondent come public perception that the body consensus among negotiators, and for The Nation, agreed that the UN is ineffective in its founding mission also because of lack of readiness to struggles to establish legitimacy, to end global conflicts. compromise. It’s easier to adopt dec- with most Americans “sneeringly “This casual dismissal of the larations than plans of actions which dismissive” of its role in global de- UN’s efforts to settle disputes,” he require financial resources.” velopments. said, “which we hear so often, par- He added that the UN’s budget “And part of that problem is the ticularly in the United States, is very for peacekeeping is around $8 bil- (Continued on Page 6) short sighted.” Schlesinger acknowledged that the international body suffers short- Panel to Discuss China’s Tech Biz Prospects comings, but cautioned critics not bility could be enormous. to overlook successful UN-fostered EVENT PREVIEW: Nov. 16 On Wednesday, Nov. 16, The settlements such as those in Cam- China is attempting to transform OPC is hosting a forum, titled “Can bodia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Mo- itself from a low- and middle-wage China Truly Innovate,” to discuss zambique, Sierra Leone, Burundi, manufacturing powerhouse into an these implications. Panelists will in- “innovation nation” by 2025. There clude Yu Zhou, co-editor of China As Inside. are huge implications. If China’s An Innovation Nation and professor Recap: Free Expression in China ......2 companies and enterprises can com- of geography and Asian studies at Vassar College. Two other panelists Recap: Sports, Scandal & Olympics..3 mercialize new technologies on a will be announced. The moderator global basis, the world will feel the Recap: Women Photojournalists........3 will be William J. Holstein, business Remembering Roy Rowan..............4-5 competitive impact. After all, China journalist and author of seven books, is the nation that invented gunpow- Remembering John McLaughlin........6 including Has The American Media der and paper. But if the Chinese get Misjudged China? People Column................................7-9 stuck in lower-level businesses and A cash reception will begin at Press Freedom Update.....................10 cannot create new high-tech jobs to 6:00 p.m., followed by the program Q&A: Jim Laurie.................................11 replace disappearing manufacturing from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Follow jobs, the social costs to Chinese sta- on Twitter: #ChinaBizOPC New Books........................................12 Report Tracks Growing Threats to Reporters in China By Chad Bouchard A new report from PEN America sheds light on China’s campaign to silence critics and shut down free expression. The report, “Darkened Screen,” collected input from authors, dissidents, lawyers and more than three dozen foreign journalists working in China. On Sept. 22, the OPC, along with PEN and Freedom House, co-sponsored a forum to launch and discuss the report. PEN’s executive director, Suzanne Nossel, said amid the country’s ongoing crackdown on domestic media, foreign journalists are playing an increasingly critical role in providing perspective for readers abroad as well as in China. Chad Bouchard But that has spurred the government to increase pres- Left to right: Gady Epstein, Edward Wong, Barbara sure on foreign media, including “more direct and men- Demick and Minky Worden. does not believe foreign journalists are softening their acing tactics, including harassment of journalists and coverage. their families, direct threats made to journalists sitting “I can’t think of a single case of a reporter who in rooms with Chinese officials and being told what to pulled their punches for fear of getting in trouble with write about and what not to write about,” Nossel said. the government,” she said. Some Western media companies have responded by Gady Epstein, media editor of The Economist who restricting their scope of coverage, she said, and the was previously the Beijing bureau chief for the maga- government has been successfully discrediting foreign zine, along with Forbes and the Baltimore Sun, said media among Chinese citizens. while China has always blocked foreign media web- The panel’s moderator, OPC governor Minky Wor- sites in response to critical reporting, tactics are esca- den of Human Rights Watch, added that during a re- lating as information becomes harder to control. cent crackdown in the village of Wukan in Guangdong “The new twist is that this information spreads so province, police even placed a “bounty” of $3,000 on easily within the Chinese public – there’s social media, foreign journalists. there’s an ability for something to spread virally before Barbara Demick, formerly of the Los Angeles it gets blocked instantaneously, so there’s a lot more fear Times in Beijing, now at the Council on Foreign Re- lations, said that despite these strong-arm tactics, she (Continued on Page 10) OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA • BOARD OF GOVERNORS PRESIDENT ACTIVE BOARD Charles Graeber Robert Nickelsberg ASSOCIATE BOARD PAST PRESIDENTS Deidre Depke Hannah Allam Freelance Journalist Freelance MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO New York Bureau Chief Foreign Affairs and Author Photojournalist Marcus Mabry Marketplace Correspondent Bill Collins Michael Serrill Michael Oreskes Director, Public & McClatchy Steve Herman David A. Andelman FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Newspapers Senior Vice President Business Affairs John Corporon Deborah Amos Senior Diplomatic of News / Ford Motor Company Correspondent Allan Dodds Frank Correspondent Molly Bingham Editorial Director Alexis Gelber Voice of America NPR President & CEO NPR Emma Daly William J. Holstein OrbMedia, Inc. Communications Marshall Loeb SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Douglas Jehl Mary Rajkumar Director Larry Martz Calvin Sims Rukmini Callimachi Foreign Editor International Enterprise Human Rights Watch Larry Smith President and CEO Foreign The Washington Post Editor Richard B. Stolley International House Correspondent The Associated Press Sarah Lubman Partner The New York Times Anjali Kamat Roxana Saberi Brunswick Group EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THIRD VICE PRESIDENT Patricia Kranz Pancho Bernasconi Correspondent Freelance Journalist Anupreeta Das Vice President/News Fault Lines Daniel Sieberg Reporter Getty Images Al Jazeera English Lara Setrakian Global Head OFFICE MANAGER Wall Street Journal Co-Founder & CEO of Media Outreach Boots R. Duque TREASURER Scott Kraft News Deeply Google Chris Dickey Abigail Pesta Deputy Managing Editor EDITOR Foreign Editor Chad Bouchard Freelance Journalist Los Angeles Times Martin Smith Minky Worden The Daily Beast, President Director of Global Paris Rain Media Initiatives OPC SECRETARY Rachael Morehouse Liam Stack Human Rights Watch ISSN-0738-7202 Breaking News Scott Gilmore Associate Producer Vivienne Walt Copyright © 2015 Reporter International Columnist CBS News Correspondent Over seas Press Club The New York Times Maclean’s Magazine 60 Minutes TIME and FORTUNE of America 40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • October 2016 • Page 2 Panelists Discuss the Future of International Sports By Chad Bouchard In the wake of last year’s shakeup at the Fédération Internationale de Football Association, as well as more recent scandals following this summer’s Olympics in Rio, sports observers are taking a hard look at the future of large international sporting events. On Wednesday, Sept. 14, the OPC hosted a discussion with four reporters and experts who study sports. Panelists talked about a range of topics, including the future of women’s soccer, FIFA’s new leadership and criticisms of the International Olympic Committee. Grant Wahl, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and a correspondent for FOX Sports, said an ongoing legal Chad Bouchard dispute between the U.S. Soccer Federation and U.S. Clockwise from top left: Grant Wahl, Sean Gregory, Josh women players over pay inequality could reverberate to Fine, Jacqueline Albert-Simon and Lindsay Krasnoff. other federations and sports across the globe. covered the Rio Olympics, said the number of bids from “I think it’s going to set a standard for how women cities to host the Olympics is declining. soccer players in other countries fight for their own “We’re seeing in the summer [games] world class recognition and investment by their own federations, cities saying ‘we don’t want this.’ Where is this thing which is pretty shamefully low in several other going in the next few decades as the costs of the countries.” Olympics are more transparent and apparent?” Male US soccer players received $9 million for a Rio, which bid to host the summer games seven years poor performance in the most recent World Cup, Wahl ago, has since suffered a steep economic decline, and took said, while US women received around $2 million for an estimated loss of about $50 million to host the games.
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