Donald Trump picks former senator and CEO David Perdue for ambassador to China

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

79% : Trump said Perdue's four-decade international business career provided "valuable expertise to help build our relationship with China".
70% : Trump said Perdue, a former Fortune 500 chief executive who has lived in Hong Kong and Singapore and previously represented Georgia in the Senate, was a "loyal supporter and friend". "He will be instrumental in implementing my strategy to maintain Peace in the region, and a productive working relationship with China's leaders," Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.
68% : Trump chose his brother, Sonny Perdue, to be agriculture secretary in 2017.
50% : Trump's stated China priorities and goals," he added.
45% : One person close to Beijing said Chinese officials and scholars were asking the same question: "What does Trump want?" Perdue, 74, has held a number of senior US corporate roles.
44% : " Perdue has also taken positions on trade that run counter to Trump.
42% : He was an early supporter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a proposed multilateral trade deal, but changed his position when Trump pulled the US out of the agreement.
34% : It suggested Trump might prefer someone who could facilitate economic deals rather than more traditional diplomacy, the former official said.
31% : Trump has vowed to impose 60 per cent tariffs on imports from China.

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