Jeremy Page, the China political and diplomatic editor for The Wall Street Journal, has been hired by The Economist to be its Asia diplomatic editor.
He will be based in India.
Page has been in The Journal’s Beijing bureau, leading coverage of domestic politics, international relations and security.
He joined the Journal in Beijing in 2010, prior to which he worked for The Times of London for eight years, as South Asia correspondent, focusing on Pakistan and Afghanistan, and as Moscow correspondent, also covering Central Asia.
He first visited China as a student in 1992 and began his career with Reuters in Beijing in 1997.
