![David Perdue]() David Perdue. Wikimedia CommonsTrump’s group of China advisers is shaping up to be a team of rivals. The
president-elect said he would nominate David Perdue, a businessman and
former US senator from Georgia, as his ambassador to China. While
Perdue’s rhetoric on China in the Senate skewed hawkish, his record
as a businessman suggests he “could serve as a pragmatic voice on China
policy,” The Wall Street Journal writes. That may put him at odds with
members of Trump’s team who want to take a more aggressive approach to
Beijing, like secretary of state pick Marco Rubio and trade adviser
Peter Navarro. Meanwhile, Trump’s picks for treasury and commerce
secretaries — Scott Bessent and Howard Lutnick, respectively — “have not
expressed strong animus toward China” and have not strongly advocated for the universal tariffs Trump has threatened to impose on the country, according to The New York Times. |