US ambassador to China to step down next month

TWITTER: Mike Pompeo leaked the news of Terry Branstad’s departure in a Twitter post, but gave no reason why the US envoy is leaving his post AP, BEIJING US Ambassador to China Terry Branstad is to step down early next month, ending a three-year tenure marked by a trade war and increasingly bitter relations between the world’s two largest economies. Branstad, appointed by US President Donald Trump in 2017, confirmed his decision in a phone call with Trump last week, the US embassy said in a statement yesterday. It...