Biden nominates former veteran diplomat Burns as ambassador to China
Xinhua News Agency, Washington, August 20 (Reporter Liu Pinran) The White House announced on the 20th that President Biden has nominated Nicholas Burns, a former senior diplomat and Harvard University professor, as the ambassador to China.
Burns, 65, is currently Professor of International Relations at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Prior to that, he worked in the US government for 27 years in diplomacy.
According to information from the US State Department, Burns served successively as the senior director of the White House National Security Committee for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasian Affairs, the spokesperson of the State Department, the US ambassador to Greece and the NATO ambassador. From 2005 to 2008, he served as the US State Department in charge of politics. Deputy Secretary of State for Affairs.
The White House also announced on the same day that Biden nominated former President Obama’s White House Chief of Staff Ram Emanuel as ambassador to Japan. Emanuel served as the mayor of Chicago from 2011 to 2019.
According to the procedure, the nomination of Burns and Emanuel must be approved by the Senate of Congress.
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