Senate Foreign Relations Confirmation Hearing For Ambassador To China Nicholas Burns

Nicholas Burns, U.S. ambassador to China nominee for U.S. President Joe Biden, listens during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021. The Biden administration seeks to enlist allies to vie with China on issues ranging from the production of semiconductors to freedom of navigation in the South China Sea to human rights abuses in Xinjiang. Photographer: Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg via Getty Images