Clement Tan

Clement Tan is an assistant foreign editor at The Straits Times. Previously, he was writing mostly about China’s burgeoning place in the world at the dawn of the Xi Jinping era. From Hong Kong and Beijing, Clement covered the 2014 Hong Kong protests, along with China’s financial markets and macroeconomic and industrial policies for Reuters and Bloomberg.. He is an alumnus of the Columbia Journalism School in New York and the National University of Singapore. Clement is also a former public school teacher.