Liu Xiaoming is a Chinese analyst on international relations and foreign affairs. A career diplomat, he served staff member of the Chinese Embassy in Zambia and at the North American and Oceania Affairs Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He became deputy section chief of the North American and Oceania Affairs department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1984, serving in that post for five years. Liu then traveled to the United States to assume the second secretary post of the Chinese Embassy. In 1990, he was promoted to the first secretary position at the embassy.
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