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Melissa Chan

  • Reporter and Writer, National and Foreign Affairs, Freelance
  • Freelance Presenter and Editor, Deutsche Welle (DW)
  • Contributor, Global Reporting Centre
  • Independent Journalist, Freelance
Berlin, Germany
As seen in: Deutsche Welle (DW), The New York Times, Bloomberg CityLab, El País, The Guardian, The Washington Post, La Nación (Argentina), The Atlantic, Al Jazeera English, South China Morning Post, Sydney Morning Herald and
Emmy-nominated reporter. Russia Today called me “notorious,” China kicked me out. Formerly Asia, Doha, California, more 🌏.

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Against Tyranny: Two Stories Told in Pictures Warn Us To Fight On

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By Melissa Chan
| New Lines Magazine Verified
Successful resistance movements against autocratic regimes require collective people power. They are also increasingly becoming long shots, as 21st-century authoritarian states grow more adept at throttling dissent, often using new surveillance tools the East German Stasi could have only dreamed of possessing. From Russia to Venezuela to Myanmar, mass demonstrations in recent years have failed to topple dictators, while activists have either had to flee, face imprisonment or die.
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Baby Formula Marketing Practices Are Still Too Aggressive

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By Melissa Chan, Jack Detsch Verified, Maximilian Hess, Sam Roggeveen
| Foreign Policy Magazine Verified
Just a few days after Abbott Laboratories, one of the top producers of baby formula in the United States, began a series of recalls that triggered a national shortage in February, the World Health Organization (WHO) released an important but little-noticed report. The researchers cataloged another problem with baby formula: There’s an overreliance on it in much of the world, and that’s the result of aggressive and misleading marketing by the companies producing it.
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Hong Kong Activist Nathan Law's Freedom Has a Lesson for Democracies

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By Melissa Chan
| Foreign Policy Magazine Verified
“What does it mean to be free in a world increasingly shaped by the rising authoritarian power of the People’s Republic of China?” Hong Kong activist Nathan Law asks in his new book, written from exile in the United Kingdom. He finds his answer in the essential features of a democratic society: the right to protest, the rule of law, a free press. But Law’s most significant personal act of political freedom may be the publication of the book itself.
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