Baucus pick shows US focus on trade

Earlier this month, the US Senate voted 96 to zero to confirm Democratic Senator Max Baucus as the next US ambassador to China. The acclaimed 72-year-old trade expert will soon be heading for Beijing, succeeding Gary Locke.

I attended a speech by Baucus in Shanghai in the late 1990s, during which he talked about such issues as the trade imbalance between China and the US and the exchange rate of the yuan. MORE>>