DR. BILL HAYTON

Bill Hayton is an Associate Fellow with the Asia-Pacific programme at Chatham House and the editor of the academic journal ‘Asian Affairs’. He is the author of four books on Asia including The South China Sea: the struggle for power in Asia and The Invention of China. Bill worked for the BBC for 22 years until January 2021. He was the BBC’s reporter in Vietnam in 2006-7 and was seconded to the public broadcaster in Myanmar in 2013-14. In 2019 he received his PhD from the University of Cambridge for work on the history and development of the South China Sea disputes. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

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