Demetri Sevastopulo covers U.S. relations with China and the Indo-Pacific. He was previously Washington Bureau Chief, U.S. Politics Correspondent, Pentagon & CIA Correspondent, Washington Business Correspondent, and South China Correspondent. He also spent four years running the FT’s Asia news operations from Hong Kong. He began his career as a currency derivatives trader at Citibank in Japan. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin and has an MA in East Asian studies from Harvard University. He speaks fluent Japanese, rusty Mandarin Chinese, and basic Cantonese. He was born and raised in Ireland, but has spent one quarter of his life in Asia (Tokyo, Hong Kong & Beijing).
