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.

[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.

[2][3] After leaving the boat in 1974, he studied Mandarin intensively for two years in Beijing and eventually enrolled in Chinese history in Peking University as part of the class of 1977.

[3] During the Tiananmen Square protests, Florcruz drove activists Liu Xiaobo and Hou Dejian to a safe house.