Friday, March 11, 2011

Obama appoints ambassador in Beijing to Chinese American Gary Locke

Washington. .- The President of the United States, Barack Obama, today named Gary Locke, of Chinese descent and until then Secretary of Commerce, as the new ambassador to China, in a ceremony at the White House. "I can not think of anyone more qualified than Gary Locke. More than a hundred years, Gary's grandfather left China on a steamer headed for America.

A century later his grandson returns to China as foreign minister" U.S. that country, "Obama said. Obama highlighted the work of Locke, who was in charge of the Secretariat of Commerce since 2009, as "business lawyer and U.S. exports worldwide." For his part, Locke welcomed the appointment and said he was "honored" by his new position.

"I return to the birthplace of my grandfather, my father and mother, and I will as a devoted and passionate advocate of the United States, the country where I was born and raised," he said. The current Secretary of Commerce, Chinese parents, was governor of the state of Washington until 2004, becoming the first Chinese ancestry in the country's history.

President Obama said the relationship with China is one of the most important this century because it is one of the fastest-growth rate. Relations between Washington and Beijing have gone through ups and downs lately Americans to accusations that China manipulates the yuan to promote its exports to the U.S.

and that very little cooperation in the fight against piracy. China is the second largest U.S. trading partner, with whom he recorded a trade deficit of 273,000 million dollars in 2010, according to official data. Obama has said that the country's economic recovery following the recent financial crisis, passes a higher export effort that includes doubling exports in the period 2010-2015, in which Chinese market is one of the main objectives.

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