Fu Ying

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Fu Ying (Chinese: 傅莹; pinyin: Fù Yíng; born 1953; ethnic Mongol) has been Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom since March 2007. From 2004 to 2007 she was Chinese ambassador to Australia. She was leader of the Chinese Delegation on talks which led to the North Koreans abandoning nuclear weapons.^[1] Recently, regarding negative press coverage of the protests towards the 2008 Beijing Olympics, she warned of a backlash from China towards the west, claiming that the "demonising" approach to the protests harmed the west's image in the eyes of the Chinese population. She is cited by The Guardian newspaper to have said: "Many who had romantic views of the west are very disappointed at the media's attempt to demonise China. We all know that demonisation feeds a counter-reaction"^[2].

[edit] Career

Fu was born in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China in 1953. She graduated from the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute (北京外国语学院).

1978-1982 Attaché, Embassy in Romania
1982-1985 Attaché, Department of Translation and Interpretation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1985-1986 University of Kent
1986-1990 Third Secretary, Second Secretary and Deputy Director, the Department of Translation and Interpretation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1990-1992 Deputy Director and First Secretary, the Department of Asian Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1992-1993 Staff Member, United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia
1993-1997 First Secretary, Director and Counsellor, Department of Asian Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1997-1998 Minister Counsellor, Embassy in Indonesia
1998-2000 Ambassador to the Philippines
2000-2003 Director-General, Department of Asian Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2003-2007 Ambassador to Australia
Mar 2007- Ambassador to the United Kingdom