President-elect Donald J. Trump announced on Thursday that he would nominate David Perdue, a businessman and former senator from Georgia, to be his ambassador to China.

候任总统特朗普周四宣布，他将提名商人、前佐治亚州参议员戴维·珀杜担任驻华大使。

“He will be instrumental in implementing my strategy to maintain Peace in the region, and a productive working relationship with China’s leaders,” Mr. Trump wrote in an online post.

特朗普发帖称：“他将在执行我的维护地区和平的战略中发挥重要作用，并与中国领导人建立富有成效的工作关系。”

If confirmed by the Senate, Mr. Perdue would take over the ambassadorship from Nicholas Burns, a veteran diplomat and former Harvard professor. Mr. Perdue would serve as a conduit between Mr. Trump and Chinese officials in Beijing, including Xi Jinping, the country’s leader. American officials in the Biden and first Trump administrations have said the U.S.-China relationship is the most consequential in the world.

如果得到参议院批准，珀杜将接替资深外交官、前哈佛大学教授尼古拉斯·伯恩斯出任驻华大使。珀杜将充当特朗普与中国官员（包括中国领导人习近平）之间的沟通渠道。拜登政府和特朗普第一届政府的美国官员都表示，中美关系是世界上最重要的关系。

The two nations are peer competitors, with the world’s two largest economies and most powerful militaries. American officials say that China is the only power capable of displacing the United States as the dominant nation in the world.

两国是势均力敌的竞争对手，是世界上两个最大的经济体，并拥有最强大的军事力量。美国官员称，中国是唯一有能力取代美国成为世界主导的国家。

Mr. Trump’s picks for the top national security posts have talked about confronting and constraining China: Marco Rubio, the designated secretary of state; Michael Waltz, tapped for national security adviser; and Pete Hegseth, Mr. Trump’s deeply imperiled choice for defense secretary. On Wednesday, Mr. Trump named Peter Navarro, a vocal critic of China, to be a senior adviser on trade and manufacturing.

特朗普挑选的几位国家安全高级官员都谈到了对抗和制约中国的问题，包括被提名为国务卿的马尔科·卢比奥、被任命为国家安全顾问的迈克尔·沃尔兹，以及深陷危机的特朗普国防部长人选皮特·海格塞斯。周三，特朗普任命公开批评中国的彼得·纳瓦罗担任贸易和制造业高级顾问。

But Mr. Trump’s pick for Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, and the one for commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, have not expressed strong animus toward China. Neither man has been a strong advocate of universal tariffs, which some of Mr. Trump’s supporters favor. Mr. Trump has threatened to impose tariffs of 60 percent or more on all Chinese goods and to revoke the nation’s preferred trade status, a move that would also lead to higher tariffs.

但特朗普挑选的财政部长斯科特·贝森特和商务部长霍华德·卢特尼克并没有对中国表现出强烈的敌意。两人都不像一些特朗普的拥趸那样，是普遍关税的坚定支持者。特朗普威胁要对所有中国商品征收60%或以上的关税，并取消中国的优惠贸易地位，此举也会导致更高的关税。

Mr. Trump has also praised Mr. Xi as a strong and “brilliant” leader and has called the Chinese autocrat a “very good friend.”

特朗普还称赞习近平是一位强大而“杰出”的领导人，并称这位中国威权领导人是他“非常好的朋友”。

Mr. Perdue represented Georgia in the Senate from 2015 to 2021, leaving after he lost re-election to Jon Ossoff. Mr. Perdue publicly questioned the election results, criticized Georgia’s election officials and supported a lawsuit brought by Mr. Trump’s supporters to try to overturn the 2020 results in Georgia, a pivotal state in the presidential race. With Mr. Trump’s backing, Mr. Perdue challenged Brian Kemp for the Republican nomination in the election for governor of Georgia in 2022 but lost by a wide margin in the primary.

珀杜曾于2015至2021年任佐治亚州参议员，在竞选连任中输给乔恩·奥索夫后下台。珀杜公开质疑选举结果，批评佐治亚州的选举官员，并支持特朗普支持者提起诉讼，试图推翻总统竞选中举足轻重的佐治亚州2020年的选举结果。在特朗普支持下，珀杜在2022年佐治亚州州长选举中挑战布莱恩·坎普的共和党提名，但在初选中以较大差距落败。

Mr. Perdue was the most prolific stock trader in the Senate during his six years there, a fact that raised questions about potential conflicts of interest. The Justice Department investigated him for possible insider trading in his sale of more than $1 million of stock in a financial-analysis firm, but prosecutors did not bring charges.

在担任参议员的六年期间，珀杜是参议院中股票交易量最大的参议员，这引发了人们对其可能存在利益冲突的质疑。司法部曾调查他在一家金融分析公司出售价值100多万美元股票时涉嫌内幕交易，但检察官并未就此提出指控。