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Jonathan Kaiman

  • Associate Attorney, Clare Locke LLP
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Jonathan Kaiman’s Biography

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Jonathan Kaiman is the Los Angeles Times’ Beijing bureau chief. He was previously a correspondent for the Guardian, a freelance writer and a Fulbright scholar researching folklore in China’s rural southwest. He graduated from Vassar College.

Jonathan Kaiman’s Journalist Portfolio

A Philippines grandmother fought to get a toxic coal stockpile out of her neighborhood. Three bul...

A Philippines grandmother fought to get a toxic coal stockpile out of her neighborhood. Three bul...

Gloria Capitan couldn't have imagined her fate. Her cause felt just, and her community was behind her. Beside…

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The legend of the blond, blue-eyed slave: Retracing a crashed WWII pilot’s journey through China

The legend of the blond, blue-eyed slave: Retracing a crashed WWII pilot’s journey through China

Almost everybody in Liangshan knows the story of the American slave.

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Meet Charles Robert Jenkins, an American detained by North Korea for 40 years

Meet Charles Robert Jenkins, an American detained by North Korea for 40 years

Charles Robert Jenkins deserted the U.S. Army on a freezing night in January 1965. He pounded 10 beers to qui…

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One-armed bandits hit the savanna: Inside the Chinese-led gambling epidemic in rural Ghana

One-armed bandits hit the savanna: Inside the Chinese-led gambling epidemic in rural Ghana

When the machines arrived last winter, the villagers were mesmerized. In Zamashegu, a farming community of 1,…

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'China has conquered Kenya': Inside Beijing's new strategy to win African hearts and minds

'China has conquered Kenya': Inside Beijing's new strategy to win African hearts and minds

It took the StarTimes satellite TV salesman about 30 minutes to install a pipeline for Chinese propaganda int…

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Articles

The Coronavirus Butterfly Effect

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By Jonathan Kaiman
| Reason Verified
Every weekday morning during the first few weeks of the coronavirus crisis, Bree Slovick would wake up, wash her hands, disinfect her door handles, walk her 4-year-old daughter to day care (so she didn't need to touch the car), ensure that her daughter washed her hands, and then go to work at a small company in Hopkins, Minnesota, that makes some of the most precise machine parts in the world.
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Can We Trust China’s Claims That It’s Winning the War on Coronavirus?

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By Jonathan Kaiman
| Reason Verified
Imagine that you live in China, and that the only news you get comes from state-controlled media. In early December 2019, you begin to see stories about a mysterious new virus, not unlike pneumonia, affecting patients at hospitals in Wuhan, a central city of 11 million people. Day by day through January, the number of reported cases multiplies, and in February, local officials order you to stay at home. It's inconvenient, but authorities seem to have the situation under control.
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The Tear of Allah

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By Jonathan Kaiman
| Reason Verified
The series of events that would transform Zhuman Ramazan's life began 4.6 billion years ago, millions of miles from Earth, when dust, rock, and other celestial debris gathered into an asteroid. In the late neolithic period, sometime around the dawn of writing, the asteroid crashed into Earth's atmosphere, scattering silvery-black meteorites across the Eurasian continent.
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How is social media changing news?

I believe it's a democratizing, but dangerous force -- and that it should be used extensively and frequently, but with great caution

What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?

Those usually aren't very funny

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Send me an email!