Tim Johnson took over the Washington Bureau's Beijing bureau in September 2003, with responsibility for China and Taiwan.
Prior to his posting, he worked for 14 years for the Miami Herald, most recently from Washington D.C. covering U.S. policy toward Latin America. He served as a foreign correspondent for The Herald through most of the 1990s in Central America and the Andean region.
Johnson won the 1996 Maria Moors Cabot Prize from Columbia University for "courageous and valiant reporting" from Latin America, and was a 2000-2001 Knight Fellow at Stanford University.
Read his blog, China Rises.
Road checkpoints erected this week around Beijing to boost security for the Olympic Games have put a chokehold on regional commerce and created ripples likely to reach as far as U.S. store shelves. Long lines of trucks formed at dozens of highway checkpoints around China's capital, leaving many drivers grumbling that they were unable to make deliveries. » read more
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