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The president’s long history of deal making on the issue is crashing into the realities of a more sharply partisan time.

Biden is said to be planning to nominate Burns and Garcetti for ambassadorships. R. Nicholas Burns in 2017. A former ambassador to NATO, he is said to be President Biden’s pick for ambassador to China.Credit...Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images May 26, 2021 President Biden plans to announce that he has selected R. Nicholas Burns, a veteran Foreign Service officer and a former ambassador to NATO, as his ambassador to China, and Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles as his ambassador to India, according to two people familiar with the process. Mr. Biden has also selected Thomas R. N...

AXIOS report says Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti likely to be chosen, had previously served as co-chair of Biden's presidential campaign & was considered for Biden's cabinet.

Biden lags behind Trump and Obama, with vacant ambassador posts around globe Naomi Lim © Provided by Washington Examiner President Joe Biden could strain relations with some longtime U.S. allies unless he begins nominating ambassadors at a more rapid clip. The former Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman campaigned, in part, on a desire to improve the country's standing on the world stage following four years of former President Donald Trump's "America first" foreign policy. Biden and other Democrats claimed the 45th president was too harsh on traditional allies and sh...

The president began reviewing names of potential ambassadors in March.