Jaime FlorCruz

Jaime Adriano FlorCruz (born April 5, 1951) is a Filipino journalist and diplomat with a career spanning more than four decades, including a tenure as CNN's Beijing bureau chief. He has reported on a wide range of topics in China, including the country's political and economic developments, as well as its cultural and social issues. In 2022, he was named as the Philippines Ambassador to China.

Jaime FlorCruz
FlorCruz in 2023
Ambassador of the Philippines to China
Assumed office
February 24, 2023
PresidentBongbong Marcos
Preceded byJose Santiago Santa Romana
Personal details
Born
Jaime Adriano FlorCruz

(1951-04-05) April 5, 1951
Malolos, Bulacan, Philippines
SpouseAna Segovia FlorCruz
Children2
Alma materPeking University (B.A.)
Polytechnic University of the Philippines (B.A.)
OccupationJournalist, columnist, publisher

Early life and education

FlorCruz was born in Malolos, Bulacan, in 1951.[1] In 1971, he was one of 14 young activists fighting against President Ferdinand Marcos and defied a government ban against travel to China by visiting the country for a three-week study tour. A bombing at Plaza Miranda on August 21, 1971, put the group on a list of "subverisives" causing FlorCruz to self-exile in China. After experiencing the Cultural Revolution and working in the countryside, he studied Mandarin intensively for two years in Beijing and eventually enrolled in Chinese history in Peking University.[2]

Career

In 1982, he joined Time Magazine’s Beijing bureau, and served as Beijing bureau chief from 1990 to 2000, where he covered important stories such as the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. In 2000, he was the Edward R. Morrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, the first non-American journalist chosen for the fellowship.[3] Afterwards, he joined CNN as a Beijing-based correspondent. He covered a wide range of stories, including the SARS outbreak in 2003 and the 2008 Beijing Olympics.[4]

In 2022, he published his memoir Class of ’77: How My Classmates Changed China, documenting his career.[5]

That same year, he was named envoy from the Philippines to China[2] and was confirmed on December 7, 2022 as Ambassador to China.[6][7]

References
  1. Pedrosa, Carmen N. "An exile that became an opportunity". Philstar.com. Retrieved 2023-05-09.
  2. "Former Filipino exile who joined the Cultural Revolution to be envoy to Beijing". South China Morning Post. 2022-11-09. Retrieved 2023-05-09.
  3. "'Begin With the Young Generation' to Sustain Future Foreign Correspondence". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2023-05-25.
  4. "Four decades in China: Jaime FlorCruz signs off". CNN. 2014-12-31. Retrieved 2023-05-25.
  5. Jakes, Susan (2023-01-06). "The Class of '77". ChinaFile. Retrieved 2023-05-25.
  6. "CA approves new PH ambassador to China". ABS-CBN News. Dec 7, 2022.
  7. "Philippines Confirms New Envoy to China". thediplomat.com. Retrieved 2023-05-25.
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