A former U.S. senator who visited Taiwan and met with former President Tsai Ing-wen is the new U.S. ambassador to China.
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00:00The U.S. Senate has voted in a former business executive as the country's new ambassador to China.
00:07The nomination is confirmed.
00:10David Perdue takes on the role as a trade war between the two countries starts to bite.
00:16He served one term as a Republican senator until 2021 and previously lived in Hong Kong.
00:23In 2018, as a senator, he visited Taiwan and met then-president Tsai Ing-wen.
00:29During his confirmation hearing in April, he said he supported a peaceful resolution of tensions between Beijing and Taipei that would be acceptable to both sides.