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Tyler Roney

Tyler Roney

Tyler Roney is a Bangkok-based writer and editor who has reported from Asia for more than a decade

Tyler Roney is a Bangkok-based writer and editor who has reported from Asia for more than a decade, working with The Diplomat, Foreign Policy, Nikkei Asian Review, Asia Sentinel, The World of Chinese, China Radio International, and more. He writes about environmental issues, human rights, and current affairs in China and Southeast Asia.

He can be followed on Twitter at @TylerRoney.

Posts by Tyler Roney
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February 28, 2017

Whither China’s National Football Team?

By Tyler Roney
Can throwing resources at China’s football infrastructure translate to success on the international stage?
January 31, 2017

Chinese Sci-Fi Ascendant: Can Films Match the Magic of Literature?

By Tyler Roney
China struggles to turn sci-fi barnburners into cinema blockbusters.

January 17, 2017

Growing Up in Rising China

By Tyler Roney
The Diplomat talks with the author of Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China

September 29, 2014

The Hong Kong Occupy Central Protests

By Tyler Roney
On the streets with the democracy protestors in Hong Kong.

September 29, 2014

Tear Gas, Arrests Mark Beginning of Hong Kong's Occupy Central Protests

By Tyler Roney
The Diplomat's Tyler Roney reports from the ground in Hong Kong.
September 10, 2014

Trial Set for Human Rights Campaigner Guo Feixiong

By Tyler Roney
Guo Feixiong becomes the latest human rights activist to be tried for "disrupting social order" in China.

September 02, 2014

The Beijing Line on Hong Kong’s Draft Rules

By Tyler Roney
Mainland media outlets are bolstering Beijing's position in advance of the Occupy Central protests in Hong Kong.
August 26, 2014

Beijing Indie Film Fest Closed by Police... Again

By Tyler Roney
Even while Beijing seeks to pump up Chinese cinema, it continues to suppress independent film festivals.

August 18, 2014

Hong Kong's Dueling Protest Movements

By Tyler Roney
Pro-government forces in Hong Kong are organizing their own marches in response to the Occupy Central movement.

August 11, 2014

Christian Theology: Made in China

By Tyler Roney
Recent comments on creating a uniquely Chinese "Christian theology" come amidst a crackdown on Chinese churches.

August 01, 2014

Stop Predicting China's Economic Collapse

By Tyler Roney
Let's not panic about a Chinese economic collapse just yet.
July 26, 2014

China’s War on the Internet

By Tyler Roney
With more Chinese going online, the CCP has strengthened its effort to create an Internet with Chinese Characteristics.

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