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The US ambassador to China, Terry Branstad, resigned before the November US elections in part because President Donald Trump urged him to return to help campaign the campaign.
The above information has just been published by CNN, citing some sources.
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| US President Donald Trump shook hands with Terry Branstad when he chose the governor of Iowa as ambassador to China in December 2016. Photo: Bloomberg. |
Branstad always intended to serve a single mandate, so his departure was predictable, these sources added. However, just a few weeks ago, the ambassador planned to continue in Beijing until after the elections. And that changed when President Trump asked Branstad to return to the United States and campaigned for him.
“That’s why it ended early, because the president asked for it,” a source familiar with CNN told CNN.
The decision to resign was made by Ambassador Branstad amid growing tensions between the United States and China in many areas. On September 11, the Beijing government announced that it would impose some limits on top US diplomats, after Washington implemented a similar measure against Chinese diplomatic delegations. / 9.
Branstad has been friends with President Xi Jinping since the 1980s, but as an ambassador to Beijing, he has seen the US-China relationship go through a lot of turmoil. The Trump administration has imposed tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars in imports from China during a protracted trade war. Washington also banned many Chinese tech companies like Huawei from the US telecommunications infrastructure and adjusted visas with Chinese journalists working in the US.
In a phone call with Republican Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa, President Trump mentioned the ambassador and his son, Eric Branstad, who is currently a senior adviser to Trump Victory 2020. – Joint fundraising committee between the Trump campaign and the Committee Republican National.
“Eric Branstad is amazing, and you know, Eric’s father is coming back from China because he wants to join the campaign,” Trump said, according to a video recently posted by Senator Ernst on Twitter. .
A source familiar with the matter revealed that President Trump wanted Branstad to return to help run in Iowa. The Trump campaign believes the ambassador can influence voters in the states of Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri and even Minnesota.
According to recent polls, candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden are closely followed in Iowa. Trump won the state by having an advantage of about 10% of the vote in the 2016 election.
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