{"id":5072,"date":"2026-02-12T02:25:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T01:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/?p=5072"},"modified":"2026-02-26T07:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:50:20","slug":"dr-bill-hayton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/dr-bill-hayton\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Bill Hayton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5008 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bill-Hayton-e1770834162593-278x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bill-Hayton-e1770834162593-278x300.jpeg 278w, https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bill-Hayton-e1770834162593-948x1024.jpeg 948w, https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bill-Hayton-e1770834162593-667x720.jpeg 667w, https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bill-Hayton-e1770834162593-834x900.jpeg 834w, https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bill-Hayton-e1770834162593.jpeg 1205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 173px) 100vw, 173px\" \/>Dr. Bill Hayton<\/strong><\/em> is the author of The Invention of China (Yale, 2020) and three other books on Asia: Vietnam: rising dragon (Yale 2010 &amp; 2020), The South China Sea: the struggle for power in Asia (Yale, 2014) and A Brief History of Vietnam (Tuttle, 2022). He is the editor of the academic journal Asian Affairs and was appointed an Associate Fellow with the Asia-Pacific programme at Chatham House in 2015. Bill worked as a BBC journalist for 22 years, including a year as the BBC\u2019s reporter in Vietnam in 2006-7 and another year seconded to the public broadcaster in Myanmar in 2013-14. In 2019 he received his PhD from the University of Cambridge for work on the history and development of the South China Sea disputes. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He is currently working on a new book on East Asian history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Bill Hayton is the author of The Invention of China (Yale, 2020) and three other books on Asia: Vietnam: rising dragon (Yale 2010 &amp; 2020), The South China Sea: the struggle for power in Asia (Yale, 2014) and A Brief History of Vietnam (Tuttle, 2022). He is the editor of the academic journal Asian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker_2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5164,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072\/revisions\/5164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}