{"id":2022037,"date":"2023-09-05T10:53:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T14:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-nominates-leader-of-pro-china-think-tank-as-ambassador-to-israel\/"},"modified":"2023-09-05T10:54:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T14:54:31","slug":"biden-nominates-leader-of-pro-china-think-tank-as-ambassador-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-nominates-leader-of-pro-china-think-tank-as-ambassador-to-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden taps pro-China think tank leader as Israel ambassador."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-nominates-leader-of-pro-china-think-tank-as-ambassador-to-israel%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2022037&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>President Joe \u200bBiden Nominates Jack Lew as Ambassador to Israel<\/h2>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>Jacob Lew \/ \u200cGetty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u200d on Tuesday announced\u200b former Treasury secretary <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Jack Lew<\/span> as his nominee for ambassador to Israel, the White House said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Lew is chairman of the National \u200dCommittee \u2062on U.S.-China Relations, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-nominates-leader-of-pro-china-think-tank-as-ambassador-to-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-are-no-friends-of-freedom-the-american-spectator-usa-news-and-politicsthe-american-spectator-usa-news-and-politics\/\" title=\"Democrats Are No Friends of Freedom\">israel<\/a>\/&#8221; title=&#8221;Biden taps pro-China think tank leader as Israel ambassador.&#8221;>advocates closer \u2062ties<\/a> between\u2062 the United States and China. The group has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/bidens-top-candidate-to-be-ambassador-to-israel-leads-pro-china-think-tank\/\">hosted<\/a> senior CCP officials, and as head \u2064of the\u200d group Lew met\u200d in Beijing with China&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/off-to-a-bad-start-putin-schools-biden-with-one-phone-call\/\" title=\"Off to a Bad START: Putin Schools Biden with One Phone Call\">foreign minister<\/a>. One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sidney-powell-is-an-american-legal-giant\/\" title=\"Sidney Powell Is an American Legal Giant\">intelligence analyst<\/a> described \u200bthe group as &#8220;consistently soft on China.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If confirmed\u200c by\u2064 the U.S. Senate, \u200dLew \u2063will\u2062 face a complicated political\u200b situation, as Israeli prime minister \u2064Benjamin Netanyahu pushes through \u200ca judicial overhaul opposed by\u200c the Biden \u200dadministration.<\/p>\n<p>He would \u200csucceed Ambassador Tom Nides in the\u200b post.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Treasury secretary, Lew served under former\u2064 president Barack Obama\u2064 as White House chief of staff and \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-cuomo-aide-makes-shocking-sexual-harassment-allegation\/\" title=\"Ex-Cuomo Aide Makes Shocking Sexual Harassment Allegation\">deputy secretary<\/a> of state for management \u200cand \u200cresources.<\/p>\n<p>Lew was\u2064 director of the Office of Management and Budget, a position in President Bill Clinton&#8217;s\u200c Cabinet, \u200dfrom 1998 to\u200c 2001. In both the Democratic \u200cClinton and Obama administrations, Lew served on the \u2063National \u2062Security Council.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, as special \u2062assistant to Clinton, \u200dhe was an architect \u2063of the national service program, Americorps.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Paul Grant; editing\u2064 by Doina Chiacu)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden has nominated former Treasury Secretary Jack Lew as the ambassador to Israel. Lew, who currently chairs the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, has been actively promoting stronger relations between the United States and China, including hosting senior officials from the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2022038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2022037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2022037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2022038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}