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"Edward Wong" is an United States/American journalist and a foreign correspondent for The New York Times. Wong served as one of the Times' main correspondents covering the Iraq War from November 2003 through June 2007. He moved to the paper's Beijing bureau in April 2008 after a sabbatical at Middlebury College and the International Chinese Language Program/International Chinese Language Program (ICLP) in Taiwan improving his Mandarin. Wong reports on China's politics, economy, environment, military, foreign policy and culture. He has covered recent signature events in China, including the Sichuan earthquake, the Beijing Olympics and unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang. Wong is the main writer on the Times' Culture & Control series, about the struggle among citizens and the state to shape the culture of China. He has also reported from Afghanistan, Tajikistan, North Korea, Myanmar, Mongolia, India, Indonesia, Vietnam and Taiwan. He has written travel stories about trekking in the mountains of Asia and South America.

Wong graduated from the University of Virginia in 1994 with a B.A. in English. In 1999, he earned dual Master's degrees in journalism and international studies at the University of California, Berkeley.