Jonathan Watts

Jonathan Watts is Latin America correspondent for The Guardian. He was formerly Asia environment correspondent and president of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China.

Watts' multimedia career includes seven years in Japan, five trips to North Korea, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and Beijing Olympics and the 2011 Tohoku tsunami. He has lived in London, Manchester, Tokyo, Beijing and now Rio de Janeiro, contributing also at times to the BBC, CNN, Mother Jones, Christian Science Monitor, South China Morning Post, Daily Yomiuri and Asahi Shimbun.

For more information about his book and related multimedia: http://site.whenabillionchinesejump.com

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