Frank Ching is a writer and university lecturer who has reported and commented on events in Asia, particularly China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, for many years. He worked for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Far Eastern Economic Review. He opened The Wall Street Journal’s bureau in China in 1979, after the normalization of U.S.-China relations, thus becoming one of the first four American newspaper reporters to be based in Beijing since 1949.