Laura Bicker is the Senior China Correspondent for BBC News based in Beijing. She travels across the country, and is the organisations eyes and ears on the ground in one of the most challenging editorial environments in the world. She covers significant political, economic, and social developments including government policy, leadership decisions, international relations, and major events. Beyond just reporting facts, she provides analysis and explains what developments in China mean for the rest of the world such as the U.S.-China trade war and geopolitical tensions. 
Laura Bicker has worked for the BBC for 25 years and is part of the BBC’s overseas network. She has lived and worked in multiple countries mostly across Asia and North America where she has covered major breaking news events from earthquakes and floods to mass shootings and the war in Ukraine. Her work is wide ranging and high impact and her team won awards for their coverage of a high profile case in Seoul where women were being secretly drugged and raped in a popular nightclub. She also built a range of contacts in North Korea which allowed the BBC to report on the regime and offer its readers, and viewers rare accounts from the country.
She also worked on several high profile reports in the Philippines including uncovering the rise in parents sexually abusing their own children online to earn money.
She spent 4 years in the U.S. as the North America Correspondent covering the first Trump
Administration including the rise of Black Lives Matter protests in Baton Rouge and Charlottesville, the worst mass shooting in America, major devastating hurricanes and a turbulent Trump White House.
Laura speaks four languages - English, Japanese, Korean and Mandarin.
