The U.S. State Department said it will install a senior diplomat to oversee its 1,300-strong embassy in Beijing and ...

Amid South China Sea tensions, Nicholas Burns' incorrect assertion ... Yet it is well known that Burns is a seasoned career diplomat and former academic. He served for more than a decade as ...

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 ...

Unlike his predecessor Nicholas Burns, a career diplomat, Perdue is a businessman with experience of working in Asia. Sarah Beran, a former special assistant for China affairs on the National ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Washington Speakers Bureau (WSB) proudly announces that Ambassador Nicholas Burns, the former U.S. Ambassador to China, has joined its esteemed roster.

Kritenbrink, a longtime diplomat who has served as assistant ... confirmed and in place to do their jobs. On Jan. 13, R. Nicholas Burns, the ambassador to China, said in an email that he was ...

There was no immediate Chinese reaction to Burns’ remarks, which came during a seminar on China-U.S. relations centered on the life of Henry Kissinger, a career diplomat who died last year.