Author: Jonathan Tepperman, Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs
July/August 2013
Foreign Affairs
Cui Tiankai, 60, arrived in Washington, D.C., on April 2 to take up his new post as China's ambassador to the United States. A fluent English speaker with a master's degree from Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies, Cui spent five years as a farm hand during the Cultural Revolution before entering Shanghai Normal University.
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