As reported in Frontrunning, President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Iowa Governor Terry Branstad as the next U.S. ambassador to China, choosing a longstanding friend of Beijing after rattling the world’s second-largest economy by speaking to Taiwan’s president. Earlier in Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang called Branstad an “old friend” of China when asked about a report on the appointment, although he added Beijing would work with any U.S. ambassador.