Anna Fifield is Asia-Pacific editor at The Washington Post, a role she moved into after 20 years as a foreign correspondent, including as the Post's bureau chief in Beijing and Tokyo. During her time abroad she was also White House correspondent for the Financial Times and reported from across the Middle East. She is the author of "The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un," which has been translated into 24 languages, and was a Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard University, studying how change happens in closed societies.