Steven Butler is the Asia Program coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists. He lived and worked in Asia as a foreign correspondent for nearly 20 years, and later was Foreign Editor at the Knight Ridder Washington Bureau. He holds a PhD in political science from Columbia University. On Twitter: @StevenBButler.
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