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With ambassador picks, Biden faces donor vs diversity test Today 11:01 am JST Today | 02:10 pm JST WASHINGTON President Joe Biden is facing a fresh challenge to his oft-repeated commitment to diversity in his administration: assembling a diplomatic corps that gives a nod to key political allies and donors while staying true to a campaign pledge to appoint ambassadors who look like America. More than three months into his administration, Biden has put forward just 11 ambassad...

With ambassador picks, Biden faces donor vs. diversity test Sign In AAMER MADHANI, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5FILE - In this March 1, 2021 file photo, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks to reporters during a news conference at United Nations headquarters. President Joe Biden is facing a fresh challenge to his oft-repeated commitment to diversity in his administration: assembling a diplomatic corps that gives a nod to key political...

President Joe Biden is facing a fresh challenge to his oft-repeated commitment to diversity in his administration. AP Photo President Joe Biden is facing a fresh challenge to his oft-repeated commitment to diversity in his administration: assembling a diplomatic corps that gives a nod to key political allies and donors while staying true to a campaign pledge to appoint ambassadors who look like America. More than three months into his administration, Biden has put forward just 11 ambassador n...

Too Chinese for the US, too American for China. Where can Asian Americans like me call home? Opinion by Selina Wang, CNN Updated 8:15 PM ET, Sat April 10, 2021 Selina Wang (left) and her sister celebrate her grandmothers birthday at her relatives home village in Henan, China. Tokyo (CNN)Last summer, a Chinese man approached me on a crowded Beijing street and asked me in Mandarin if I was Chinese American. It seemed innocent enough, as I was speaking English with expat friends. But after I nod...

Gets to issues that might make somebody susceptible to blackmail, could be a lot of foreign entangments, foreign ralphs, high levels of debt, issues of substance abuse. those are the kinds of things that would raise red flags in somebodys application. i was interested to hear, as well in the last hour, we has christopher lu who helped run the obama transition in 2008. he said they precleared in the course of the transition period before the election 200 officials immediately going to need this h...

Our own ken dilanian was reporting today that theres an additional in addition to the standard sf86 questionnaire that every executive branch official would be go through, theres an additional questionnaire that white house officials work have to deal with which specifically gets to issues that might make somebody susceptible to blackmail, could be a lot of foreign entangments, foreign ralphs, high levels of debt, issues of substance abuse. those are the kinds of things that would raise red flag...