Obama's Perfect Ambassador to China
Melinda Liu, Newsweek | November 19, 2009
Obama's decision to go "across party lines" and select Jon Huntsman Jr. as US Ambassador to China is a fine decision. ++ “Handling the rise of China may be the biggest challenge facing Washington today” and it needs Huntsman's powers of persuasion. ++ It also represents a subtle slight of hand as the offer has removed a potentially promising Republican candidate from the 2012 campaign. ++ His fluent Mandarin and political philosophy makes Huntsman a perfect ambassador but also a future threat to the Democrat presidency.
