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China taps its envoy to Israel as new European Union ambassador
Between 2015 and 2020, he was China’s envoy to Portugal and, between various stints in Beijing, spent several years as a minister counsellor at the country’s embassy in the United States. He returns to Europe at a crunch time in the EU’s relationship with …