Sarah McLaughlin is Senior Scholar, Global Expression at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. She studies the relationship between authoritarianism, free nations, and global censorship.

She recently published a book about transnational repression in higher education, titled Authoritarians in the Academy. Her other writings have been featured in outlets including Foreign Policy, MSNBC, The Independent, The Daily Beast, Newsweek, New York Daily News, and l'Opinion.

In this interview Serah and I discuss how tertiary institutions' engagement with China has impacted free speech.

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