Secretary of State nominee Antony Blinken testifies during his confirmation hearing to be Secretary of State before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
INCOMING US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that the country’s Israeli embassy will remain in Jerusalem and that Donald Trump was right to agitate against China.
President Joe Biden’s top diplomat told lawmakers during his Senate confirmation on Tuesday that Mr Trump “was right in taking a tougher approach to China” — specifically in identifying the Chinese government’s treatment of Uighur Muslims as a “genocide.”
On the issue of the Israeli embassy, Mr Blinken was asked by hawkish Republic Senator Ted Cruz: “Do you agree that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and do you commit that the United States will keep our embassy in Jerusalem?”
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