Weijia Jiang, a White House correspondent for CBS News, was told by President Donald Trump to « Ask China, » when questioning him during his briefing on May 11.
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Weijia Jiang (left) and Donald Trump (right).
Weijia Jiang, a White House correspondent for CBS News, was told by President Donald Trump to “Ask China,” after questioning him during his May 11 briefing.
The 36-year-old Jiang has been working in broadcast TV since she was a teenager and is a graduate of Virginia’s College of William & Mary and Syracuse University.
She was promoted to White House correspondent and an anchor on network CBS shows in July 2018. Since then, she has had controversial encounters with Trump, both of which have earned backlash on social media and from other reporters.
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Weijia (pronounced “wee-juh”) Jiang, the daughter of Liya Wei and Huade Jiang, was born in Xiamen, China but grew up in West Virginia, according to Hollywood Life. The New York Times reported that her parents, who are retired, owned and operated Chinatown Restaurant in Buckhannon, West Virginia.
At the age of 13, she was a student reporter and anchor for Channel One News in Los Angeles, similar to Channel One alums Anderson Cooper and Lisa Ling. She received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and a minor in chemistry from the College of William & Mary in 2005 and earned her master’s in broadcast journalism from Syracuse University in 2006.
Jiang worked at local CBS affiliates including ones in Baltimore, Pennsylvania and New York until she joined the national network. She has been featured on the CBS Evening News and CBS This Morning before she became the White House and Capitol Hill reporter for CBS news.
“Over the past several months, Weijia Jiang has consistently shown that she has what it takes to cover this White House–she asks the right questions, she provides context and depth, and she is fast on her feet,” Christopher Isham, CBS News vice president and Washington bureau chief, told Deadline.
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During a press conference, Jiang asked Trump why he said the U. S. is doing better testing than “any other country,” and asked why he has made the issue a competition when “Americans are losing their lives.”
Trump responded by saying, “Maybe that’s a question you should ask China.
