Weijia Jiang is a Washington, DC journalist for CBS News. Jiang has worked at WCBS since 2012 as a journalist and fill-in grapple. Before that she worked at WJZ in Baltimore, WBOZ in Salisbury, Maryland and WBRE in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

In April 2020, Weijia stood out as truly newsworthy after Donald Trump advised, "all her your voice down," when she addressed him on his organization's reaction to the coronavirus pandemic.

In May 2020, Weijia stood out as truly newsworthy again after President Trump advised her to "ask China" when she asked him for what reason the Trump organization was touting its coronavirus-testing numbers and contrasting the numbers and those in different nations. 

She was conceived in Xiamen, China, and brought up in West Virginia, where she moved with her folks when she was two years of age. Jiang is the girl of Liya Wei and Huade Jiang. Her folks, who are resigned, claimed and worked Chinatown Restaurant in Buckhannon, West Virginia. 

Jiang moved on from The College of William and Mary in 2005 with a four-year certification in theory and a minor in Chemistry. She additionally moved on from Syracuse University in 2006 with a graduate degree in communicating reporting. In 2012, she was drafted into the lofty Professional Gallery at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. 

She started her vocation at 13 years old as an understudy journalist and grapple for ChannelOne News in Los Angeles, California. 

Weijia Jiang joined CBS Newspath from WCBS-TV, where she had been a general task columnist and fill-in stay since 2012. At WCBS-TV, she secured Hurricane Sandy, the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and the Boston Marathon bombings. 

Already, Jiang worked at WJZ-TV in Baltimore (2008-2012) and WBOC-TV in Salisbury, Maryland (2006-2008). At the point when she was a doctoral level college applicant in 2006, she worked for WBRE-TV in Scranton, Pennsylvania, as a Washington, D.C.- based correspondent. 

Since July 2018, Jiang has been a White House Correspondent for CBS News. 

On March 27, 2020, soon after Trump sent another "Chinese infection" tweet, Jiang disclosed to her Twitter devotees that an anonymous White House official had dialed up the bigotry. "Toward the beginning of today a White House official alluded to #Coronavirus as the "Kung-Flu" to my face," Jiang composed, including "It makes me wonder what they're getting back to it despite my good faith." 

Contentions with Donald Trump 

On April 19, 2020, at one of the White House's COVID-19 briefings, Jiang addressed why the president held occasions in February with enormous social affairs notwithstanding the infection "fanning out quickly during [that month]." Trump utilized his China boycott as help for his activity against the infection.

The clasp of them going to and fro when it began to get warmed and Trump advised Jiang to "unwind," to "hold her voice down," and that she "ought to thank [him] for [his] decision making ability." 

On May 11, 2020, Weijia Jiang asked Trump for what valid reason his organization was touting its coronavirus testing numbers and contrasting it with different nations.

She posed the inquiry during a White House question and answer session Monday evening at the Rose Garden where Trump talked before a huge sign that said "AMERICA LEADS THE WORLD IN TESTING" and gave a shining evaluation on the nation's endeavors to test its residents for the coronavirus. 

During the question and answer session, Trump expressed "If individuals need to get tried, they get tried." 

"For what reason does that make a difference? Why would that be a worldwide rivalry to you if consistently Americans are as yet losing their lives we're despite everything seeing more cases each day," Jiang asked Trump. 

Trump, who recently had warmed trades with Jiang during public interviews, recommended Jiang ask different nations, to be specific China. The Communist Party of China has been blamed for misshaping the quantity of coronavirus-related cases and passings in the nation, and supposedly made light of worries during its beginning times in late 2019, preceding it turning into a pandemic. 

"Indeed, they're losing their lives wherever on the planet. Also, perhaps that is an inquiry you should pose to China," Trump answered. "Try not to ask me. Ask China that inquiry. Alright? At the point when you ask them that inquiry, you may find a bizarre solution." 

Trump endeavored to take an inquiry from an alternate journalist bu Jiang terminated back: "Sir, for what reason would you say you are stating that to me, explicitly? That I ought to ask China." 

"I'm not saying it explicitly to anyone," Trump said. "I'm stating it to anyone that would pose a terrible inquiry like that." 

"That is not an awful inquiry," Jiang answered. "For what reason does it make a difference?" 

Trump overlooked the remark and seemed to approach CNN White House journalist Kaitlan Collins, who was situated close by Jiang. Trump questioned the proposal and gave considering a shot an alternate writer. The entirety of the press individuals were wearing face veils after the White House gave new direction on wellbeing measures. 

"I did, and you didn't react," Trump said. "What's more, presently I'm approaching the youngster in the back if you don't mind 

"I simply need to allow my associate to complete, yet would i be able to ask you an inquiry," Collins stated, seeming to allude to Jiang. 

Trump unexpectedly finished the question and answer session soon a while later. 

Jiang right now lives in Washington, D.C. with her significant other and their little girl. Weijia Jiang and Travis Luther Lowe were hitched March 17, 2018, at Casa de Monte Vista, an occasion space in Palm Springs, California.

Jim Obergefell, who turned into an appointee chief for marriage in Riverside County, California, for the event, drove a service joining a Chinese tea function. The couple met at the College of William and Mary, from which each graduated.

Jiang and Lowe met in 2003 at school, and after a year started co-facilitating a week by week grounds TV program, in which they interested watchers with their confused styles - she a genuine journalist and he a kidding political observer.

They turned out to be dear companions, with Lowe resolved to some time or another move from the companion to sweetheart zone, lastly prevailing in 2015, after a crystal gazer at a New York road reasonable had even anticipated they were bound to spend time everlasting together. 

On October 10, 2018, she reported by means of Twitter that she was pregnant, and in doing so took an obvious poke at President Trump. "Individual news: She made an exceptionally open presentation during this presser, so it's a decent time to share my significant other and I am excited to meet our infant young lady in January!" Jiang tweeted.

"Can hardly wait to show her when a man orders you to 'plunk down' on the grounds that he doesn't care for what you're stating, do anything other than," Jiang included, an obvious reference to her trade with Trump at a question and answer session one week prior. 

As of March 2020, Jiang has around 72,500 supporters on her weijia Twitter account. There she posts and remarks on current political occasions. She additionally has in excess of 8,400 devotees on her weijia Instagram account. On her Instagram, she posts a wide assortment of photographs identified with her work, family, and travel.