WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A majority of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday backed one-time U.S. Senator David Perdue to be ambassador to China, a position the former business executive assumes amid a deep strategic rivalry and blistering trade war between the two countries.
As voting continued, the tally was 53 to 21 in favor of confirming President Donald Trump’s nominee Perdue, who was a Republican U.S. senator from Georgia from 2015 to 2021.
(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle and Michael Martina;)