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.

Link to podcast: https://youtu.be/d3U1V3liHlM?si=yULkOsWwz9epIgIf