 | Ben Chu has been economics editor of the Independent since August 2011. Before that he was the newspaper’s chief leader writer and assistant comment editor. He has reported from China, Taiwan, Germany, France and Switzerland and Ireland. Other jobs Ben has done at the paper include editing the letters page and writing for the personal finance pages. He was born in Manchester and studied modern history at Jesus College Oxford. His father was born in China and his mother is British. Ben’s first book Chinese Whispers: why everything you’ve heard about China is wrong is published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. |
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