China and America are also waging a bitter battle of ideas. China defends authoritarianism, whereas America, at least until now, has championed democracy and the rule of law. This battle, which ...

BEIJING—In November last year, President Biden and Chinese leader ... election year in the U.S. Instead, says Nicholas Burns, ...

Burns spent over three decades in the US foreign service, including as ambassador to Russia from 2005 to 2008, and high-ranking jobs in the State Department. President-elect Joe Biden on Monday ...

WASHINGTON--President Joe Biden’s pick for ambassador to Beijing told lawmakers ... a nation he said the U.S. and its allies could manage. Nicholas Burns, a former senior State Department ...

WASHINGTON--The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday backed 14 of President Joe Biden's nominees for diplomatic posts, including career diplomat Nicholas Burns to be ambassador to ...

President-Elect Joe Biden recently nominated Ambassador William J. Burns to serve as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In June of 2019, Ambassador Burns and James M. Lindsay ...