Jonathan Watts

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Watts in 2010 with his book When a Billion Chinese Jump

Jonathan Watts is a British journalist and the author of When a Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save the World - or Destroy It. [1] He served as president of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China from 2008 to 2009 [2] and as vice president of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan from 2001 to 2003. [3] [4] He is married to Brazilian journalist Eliane Brum. [5]

Since 1996, he has reported on East Asia for The Guardian , covering the North Korean nuclear crisis, the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, the Sichuan earthquake, the Beijing Olympics, the Copenhagen climate conference, and developments in China's media, society and environment. [6] [7]

In 2012 Watts covered Rio+20 extensively and as of 2013, continues as the Guardian's Latin America correspondent. [8]

In 2018 and 2019, Watts was selected as a winner of the SEAL Environmental Journalism Award. [9] [10]

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