WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama will tap outgoing Senator Max Baucus to be the next US ambassador to China, a Senate aide said Wednesday.

As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Baucus helped craft Obama's landmark health-care law, and his lengthy experience on the committee makes him well versed in trade issues, an all-important portfolio for dealing with the United States' second-largest trading partner.

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