Obama names Republican governor as envoy to China

2009/05/16 09:48:49 @Reuters: Top News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday named Utah Governor Jon Huntsman Jr. to be the next U.S. ambassador to China, a pivotal post in relations between the United States and a major emerging economic power. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=gqwKi-PJ3QI:_tH4pic88ks:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=gqwKi-PJ3QI:_tH4pic88ks:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=gqwKi-PJ3QI:_tH4pic88ks:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=gqwKi-PJ3QI:_tH4pic88ks:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=gqwKi-PJ3QI:_tH4pic88ks:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/gqwKi-PJ3QI" height="1" width="1"/
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