Among Biden’s expected picks is Caroline Kennedy, former US ambassador to Japan, daughter of the former president, and longtime Biden friend, ally and donor, to be ambassador to Australia. And the president is also widely expected to name the former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel ambassador to Japan. Biden’s expected appointments have left some longtime career diplomats frustrated. Recently, the Biden administration announced that Jill Biden’s chief of staff, Julissa Reynoso Pantaleón, a former ambassador to Uruguay, would be ambassador to Spain. Nicholas Burns, a former undersecretary for political affairs at the state department, is widely rumored to be Biden’s pick to be ambassador to China.

Source: The Guardian July 31, 2021 09:00 UTC