Cindy Yu

Cindy Yu is a British-Chinese journalist. She is contributing editor and a columnist at The Times.

Early life Yu was born in Nanjing, China and lived there until she was 10 years old at which point she moved to the United Kingdom.

Career

Yu worked as a Lidl store manager before starting an internship at The Spectator. Following this, she gained employment with the magazine.

As the broadcast editor at The Spectator, Yu managed the audio and video output from the magazine. She began recording her own fortnightly podcast called Chinese Whispers in July 2020 about Chinese politics, society, and culture, in which she often interviewed fellow China watchers.