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Richard McGregor is a journalist, writer and author. He was the chief political correspondent, Japan correspondent and China correspondent for The Australian
The Australian
The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964. The editor in chief is Chris Mitchell, the editor is Clive Mathieson and the 'editor-at-large' is Paul Kelly....

. He also worked for the International Herald Tribune
International Herald Tribune
The International Herald Tribune is a widely read English language international newspaper. It combines the resources of its own correspondents with those of The New York Times and is printed at 38 sites throughout the world, for sale in more than 160 countries and territories...

, the BBC

BBC

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and the Far Eastern Economic Review

Far Eastern Economic Review

The Far Eastern Economic Review was an English language Asian news magazine started in 1946. It printed its final issue in December 2009. The Hong Kong-based business magazine was originally published weekly...

. He has worked as a journalist in Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

, Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. He is the former bureau chief for the Financial Times
Financial Times
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. He has written The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers is a book written by Richard McGregor, a former bureau chief of the Financial Times in China. It was published by Penguin Books on June 25, 2010.-External links:********...

. The book was published by Allen Lane

Allen Lane

Sir Allen Lane was a British publisher who founded Penguin Books, bringing high quality paperback fiction and non-fiction to the mass market.-Early life and family:...

from Penguin Press in the UK and HarperCollins

HarperCollins

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in the US in June 2010.

Mr. McGregor was born in Sydney, Australia. He was living in London. On 3 January 2011 he moved to Washington DC to be the Financial Times bureau chief. He appeared on the Charlie Rose show on 18 January 2011 to discuss the Chinese President Hu Jintao

Hu Jintao

Hu Jintao is the current Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China. He has held the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China since 2002, President of the People's Republic of China since 2003, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission since 2004, succeeding Jiang...

's visit to Washington D.C.

He attended the University of Sydney

University of Sydney

The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

from 1975 until 1980 according to his LinkedIn

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page. Mr. McGregor has won the 2010 Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Editorial Excellence Award http://www.sopasia.com/editorial_awards.asp for reporting on the Xinjiang

Xinjiang

Xinjiang is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. It is the largest Chinese administrative division and spans over 1.6 million km2...

Riots and the SOPA Award in 2008 for Editorial Intelligences.

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