Walt Disney Company Executive Chairman Bob Iger’s name has been bandied around as a possible Ambassador to China in President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration, but The Washington Post’s contributing columnist Sonny Bunch says that Iger’s efforts to “placate” the Chinese government make him a very bad choice.
“The Biden administration shouldn’t put Iger — or any other entertainment industry bigwig, for that matter — in charge of diplomatic relations with China,” Bunch wrote in his Sunday op-ed. “Our media moguls have spent years accommodating Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party. Tapping one of them for this critical post would send the disastrous message that the U.S.