Published: 10:31am, 6 Dec 2024Updated: 11:34am, 6 Dec 2024
US President-elect Donald Trump has picked former senator David Perdue as his ambassador to China, he announced in social media.
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Perdue, 74, served as Republican senator of Georgia between 2015 and 2021. He did not win re-election for the Senate in 2021.
“Tonight, I am announcing that former US senator David Perdue has accepted my appointment as the next United States ambassador to the People’s Republic of China,” Trump said on his social media account.
Trump emphasised Perdue’s “valuable expertise to help build our relationship with China”, citing his “40-year international business career” and work as a US lawmaker.
“He has lived in Singapore and Hong Kong, and worked in Asia and China for much of his career. In the US Senate, he served on the Armed Services Committee, where he was chair of the powerful sea power subcommittee”.
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Perdue also served on the foreign relations committee, “the only Republican to serve on both committees”, Trump added.