Biden is said to be planning to nominate Burns and Garcetti for ambassadorships.


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…


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