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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 ambassador nominations and has more than 80 such slots to fill around the globe. Administration officials th...

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 allies and donors while staying true to a campaign pledge to appoint ambassadors who look like Amer...

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 nominations and has more than 80 such slots to fill around the globe. Administration officials this w...

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 grandmother's 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 nodded, he switched to English and bellowed "go back to where you f**king came from".

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 somebody's 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 high level access before the election even happened. i think we know that any preparations that had ...