According to informed officials from the U.S. State Department, the Trump administration is recalling more than 20 career diplomats appointed by Biden. These ambassadors are stationed in regions including East Asia and the Pacific, and they have been notified by phone that they must leave their posts by January 15th or 16th, but they have not been told the reason. This is another major upheaval in the U.S. diplomatic system during Trump's second term, and it is particularly unusual because the ambassadors involved are from the career foreign service. Normally, when a new president takes office, political appointees appointed by the previous president are replaced, while career diplomats are usually allowed to remain in their positions, as it is generally believed that career diplomats, as members of the diplomatic system, will carry out the will of the White House regardless of which party holds the presidency. However, the Trump administration has long lacked trust in the career bureaucracy of the State Department, and its officials have referred to the department as a stronghold of liberal ideology, and have already pushed thousands of employees to leave. At the same time, there are approximately 80 ambassadorial positions vacant overseas, and the appointment of new ambassadors is progressing slowly, with some nominations still being blocked in the Senate.
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