Edward Wong
@ewong
Diplomatic Correspondent @nytimes. Fellow @ Harvard Nieman, Belfer Center & Wilson Center. Visiting professor @ Princeton & Berkeley. 13 years in China & Iraq.
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http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/w/edward_wong/index.html 10-05-2009 11:00:33
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NEW: Seven months into the Israel-Gaza war, US and Israel are further apart than ever on visions for how the war ends. Biden and Blinken focus on the hostages, a ceasefire and a Palestinian state. Netanyahu wants a major assault on Rafah. w/ Isabel Kershner. nytimes.com/2024/05/02/wor…
My eyewitness account of Biden and Xi shooting hoops in the mountains of southwest China is in my book — At the Edge of Empire — out June 25. Pre-order here: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/602734/a… And read to the bottom of this The New York Times dispatch from Dujiangyan in 2011: nytimes.com/2011/08/22/wor…
NYPD officers raided the Columbia University campus at the request of Columbia University President Minouche Shafik on Tuesday evening, April 30. The officers also forcibly removed journalists, myself included, who were covering the raid. Photos by me for The Associated Press
Reporting from Jordan and Israel — The first trucks with aid entering Gaza through the Erez crossing from Jordan are supposed to roll across there today. Secretary Antony Blinken saw one being loaded outside Zarqa, Jordan. He’s in Israel now for meetings. My story: nytimes.com/2024/04/30/wor…
We just landed in Tel Aviv with Secretary Antony Blinken. He has a full day of meetings tomorrow with Israeli officials. He plans to discuss the proposed hostage/ceasefire deal offered to Hamas, the need for more humanitarian aid in Gaza, and Bibi’s stated aim of doing an offensive in Rafah.
I made an interactive map, my latest for The New York Times with Edward Wong John Ismay - A New Pacific Arsenal to Counter China nytimes.com/interactive/20…
.Secretary Antony Blinken is now flying from Saudi Arabia to Jordan and Israel. Here’s our story on Israel lowering its demands of Hamas for the release of hostages — Israel is now willing to accept 33 civilians for a Palestinian prisoner swap and a 6-week ceasefire. nytimes.com/2024/04/29/wor…
Reporting from Riyadh: Secretary Antony Blinken is in Saudi Arabia for meetings with Arab & European officials on the Israel-Gaza war. They'll discuss humanitarian aid, reconstruction, hostages and a political solution, as Israel prepares to invade Rafah. Story: nytimes.com/live/2024/04/2…
I’m traveling now with Secretary Antony Blinken to the Middle East as officials in the region grapple with the horrors of the Israel-Gaza war, more than a half-year after the start. We’re taking off for Riyadh. Here’s my story on the latest developments: nytimes.com/2024/04/27/us/…
University authorities should not equate support for Palestine/ criticism of Israeli govt as hate speech/ anti-semitism. If they’re not protecting rights to peaceful protest/ free speech then what is ‘higher learning’? louis charbonneau Human Rights Watch hrw.org/news/2024/04/2…
NEW: Stunning The New York Times story with a deep look at how Biden and the US are doing a military buildup with allies around China to deter a potential invasion of Taiwan. Blinken just raised issues with Xi in Beijing. A team effort w/ John Ismay Pablo Robles. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
NEW: Stunning The New York Times story with a deep look at how Biden and the US are doing a military buildup with allies around China to deter a potential invasion of Taiwan. Blinken just raised issues with Xi in Beijing. A team effort w/ John Ismay Pablo Robles. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor Caroline Fohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, 'What are you doing?' That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.
After walking 4,000 km through #China , I plodded dazed & dusty into #Beijing , down goat trails from the steamy hills west of the city. Where to stay in the capital of 22 million? 'Try the hutongs,' friends said: a hidden world of alleyways. See our map. outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/articles/2024-…
Here's another video of my FOX 7 Austin colleague getting brought down to the ground before he was arrested. He can be seen in the navy shirt with the camera on his shoulder and a Live U on his back.
