    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1991, Book I)]
    [May 14, 1991]
    [Page 509]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Nomination of J. Stapleton Roy To Be United States Ambassador to China
    May 14, 1991

        The President today announced his intention to nominate J. Stapleton
    Roy, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    of the United States of America to the People's Republic of China. He
    would succeed James Roderick Lilley.
        Since 1989 Ambassador Roy has served as Special Assistant to the
    Secretary and Executive Secretary of the Department of State in
    Washington, DC. Prior to this Ambassador Roy served as Deputy Assistant
    Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State,
    1986-1989; as U.S. Ambassador to Singapore, 1984-1986; as Deputy Chief
    of the U.S. Mission in Bangkok, Thailand, 1981-1984; as deputy chief of
    the U.S. mission in Beijing, China, 1979-1981; and as Deputy Chief of
    the U.S. liaison office in Beijing, China, 1978-1979. In addition,
    Ambassador Roy has served as Deputy Director of the Office of People's
    Republic of China and Mongolian Affairs at the Department of State,
    1975-1978; studied at the National War College in Washington, DC, 1974-
    1975; and served as a Deputy Director and international relations
    officer in the Office of Soviet Union Affairs at the Department of
    State, 1972-1974. Ambassador Roy served at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow as
    a political officer, 1979-1972; as an administrative officer, 1978-1979;
    and as an international relations officer in the Office of European and
    Canadian Affairs and the Office of Soviet Affairs at the Department of
    State, 1965-1968. Ambassador Roy has also served in several U.S.
    Embassies and consulates, including: political officer in Taipei, 1962-
    1964; consular officer in Hong Kong, 1962; and political officer in
    Bangkok, 1959-1961. He served as an intelligence analyst at the State
    Department, 1957-1958. Ambassador Roy entered the Foreign Service in
    1956.
        Ambassador Roy graduated from Princeton University (B.A., 1956). He
    was born June 16, 1935, in Nanjing, China. Ambassador Roy is married,
    has three children, and resides in Bethesda, MD.