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OCTOBER 28 – Talk with Jonathan Cheng

Portrait photo of Jonathan Cheng standing in front of a parkside river.
Photo credit: Gilles SabriƩ

Covering Asia in the Age of Trump, Xi and Kim

Join us for a talk with Jonathan Cheng, China bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal on October 28, 2026.

The U.S. faces more challenges in East Asia than it has seen in decades: An ascendant China that is threatening American dominance of geopolitics, economics and technology, and a nuclear North Korea that has been newly emboldened by its ties with Moscow and Beijing. Jonathan Cheng, the China bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal and the former Korea bureau chief, will talk about more than a decade reporting from on the ground in China and on the Korean peninsula, and his new book, “Korean Messiah: Kim Il Sung and the Christian Roots of North Korea’s Personality Cult.”

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