Who Trump Chose for Australia and What It Could Mean for China Ties?

David Brat is a PhD in economics, a Master of Divinity, and a firm critic of the CCP, and he could be the next US ambassador to Australia.

Dave Brat, dean of Liberty University's School of Business, in Washington on July 28, 2020. Brendon Fallon/The Epoch Times

The White House’s nominee for United States ambassador to Australia, David Brat, has had career of disrupting the status quo.

Prior to 2014 David Brat was an economics professor, later that year he pulled off a major upset in U.S. politics: the defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a Republican primary.