Joe Kahn
Meet Joe Kahn, the Times' China Expert
Joe Kahn, the Times’ deputy foreign editor, is the paper’s go-to China-expert.
He’s won a Pulitzer for his work in China, and has been described as the paper’s most invaluable resource for explaining Beijing and China to the paper’s sports desk.
He’ll be on the Charlie Rose show tomorrow night to explain China to Channel 13 viewers, but before you tune into that, here’s what he had to say to us while he spoke to him for our cover story this week:
China’s surprisingly rough year:
“I think many of us who have spent time in China tended to discount predictions made with whether or not China could handle these games successfully…The international media already has a pretty big presence, and even with an increase in quantity, there wouldn’t be a lack of sophistication with understanding China—it’s not like they’re letting in press for the first time as they were with Nixon’s visit to China.
