Much of her career was spent with the Wall Street Journal, serving as its Moscow bureau chief and editorial page editor for the Asia division. She was fearless and passionate, especially when reporting about repressive regimes around the world. Claudia was the only print journalist who witnessed the Tiennenman Square uprising in 1989, dodging bullets to get the story out to the world (you can read her first-hand account here). She was also a fierce critic of the United Nations and is widely credited with exposing corruption in the international body. She received several awards for her reporting on the UN’s Oil-for-Food program in Iraq. In recent years she had traveled to Hong Kong to cover protests over the encroachment of China. She was also a foreign policy fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum.

On a personal note, Claudia was a lovely person and true professional in every sense of the word. She was unfailingly polite and an editor’s dream. Every word and sentence was carefully chosen, and she had the ability to make complicated foreign policy issues easily understandable.

[Rest in peace, Ms. Rosett, from a longtime fan of your eloquent writing and argument. — Ed]