(Des Moines, IA) — An Iowan and former U-S Ambassador to Cambodia, says he recently got a call from China’s new ambassador to the United States. Kenneth Quinn is a Dubuque native who led the Des Moines-based World Food Prize for 20 years.
He says the call was the first to any Americans made by the new Chinese ambassador outside of Washington. Quinn says Sarah Lande of Muscatine who hosted China’s president when he visited Iowa in 1985 was also on the call. Quinn says they were looking for ways to help restore things in China back to where they were in 2012.
Quinn says he believes China is anxious to rebuild trade relationships with Iowa and he sees Iowa businesses and ag commodity groups with the same desire.
