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James Morrison

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James Morrison joined the The Washington Times in 1983 as a local reporter covering Alexandria, Va. A year later, he was assigned to open a Times bureau in Canada. From 1987 to 1989, Mr. Morrison was The Washington Times reporter in London, covering Britain, Western Europe and NATO issues. After returning to Washington, he served as an assistant foreign editor until his transfer to the Metro desk as the Virginia editor. Mr. Morrison returned to the Foreign Desk in 1993 to launch the Embassy Row column, a diplomatic news column primarily focusing on foreign ambassadors in the United States and U.S. ambassadors abroad. The column is the only one of its kind in U.S. journalism.
Mr. Morrison was born on Nov. 27, 1950, in Charleston, W.Va. His father worked as a printer for the Charleston Gazette and later relocated to Washington to work as a photo engraver at The Washington Post until his retirement. Before joining The Washington Times, James Morrison was a reporter for the Springfield, Va., Times, the Northern Virginia Sun and the Alexandria Gazette. He attended American University.

Articles by James Morrison

Embassy Row

The U.S. ambassador to Belgium is not one to speak softly, especially when it comes to rattling Russia over its invasion of Georgia.

August 26, 2008

Embassy Row

Georgia ignored last-minute U.S. warnings against provoking Russia over the conflict in South Ossetia, but Washington still supports Georgia's desire to join NATO, the U.S. envoy to the Western alliance said Thursday.

August 22, 2008

Embassy Row

Georgia's ambassador to the United States looked over the audience of more than 200 guests Monday at the Heritage Foundation and admitted that he never thought he would be addressing a Washington forum about a Russian invasion of his country.

August 19, 2008

Embassy Row

Foreign visitors in Washington this week include Festus Mogae, former president of Botswana.

August 18, 2008

Embassy Row

The former U.S. ambassador to Paraguay, after becoming a recording star in the South American nation, says he might just sit on a dock in Miami and sell worms when he retires from the State Department at the end of September after a 38-year diplomatic career.

August 14, 2008

Embassy Row

As Russian troops raged through Georgia, the country's tiny diplomatic corps in Washington mounted a round-the-clock offensive to tell Georgia's side of the story to administration officials, congressional contacts and journalists.

August 13, 2008

Embassy Row

The crisis in the Republic of Georgia opened a new front in Washington, where foreign-policy analysts rattled the Internet with e-mail alerts on their solutions to stop Russian aggression against its tiny neighbor.

August 12, 2008

Embassy Row

When the Egyptian ambassador came to Washington nine years ago, the world was much different.

August 11, 2008

Embassy Row

No booze. No cars. No domestic flights. And a rise in crime. Those are the conditions Americans can expect in Bolivia over the weekend, as Bolivians prepare to vote on the future of controversial President Evo Morales, who is facing a recall referendum on Sunday.

August 8, 2008

Embassy Row

The U.S. ambassador to China gave the new American Embassy the diplomatic equivalent of a gold medal as he hosted a preview of the compound this week in preparation for the dedication Friday on the opening day of the Beijing Olympics.

August 7, 2008

Embassy Row

Diplomatically speaking, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico had some strong words for two top Mexican lawmakers when they came to plead for mercy for a Mexican man convicted of raping and murdering two teenage girls in Texas.

August 6, 2008

Embassy Row

The U.S. ambassador in Tokyo is worried that Japan might cut off its crucial refueling support for coalition forces in Afghanistan and Iraq because of domestic political opposition to the continued deployment of Japanese troops.

August 5, 2008

Embassy Row

Bolivians frustrated by 2½ years of socialist government under President Evo Morales have a chance to remove him from office next week, but even a strong opponent of his policies doubts he will lose the recall vote.

August 4, 2008

Embassy Row

DECLINE AND FALL: They came to Washington to talk about the decline of the British Labor Party but quickly changed the subject to the expected revival of the British Conservative Party, after more than 10 years in the political wilderness.

August 1, 2008

Embassy Row

Thirty-five years ago, the first communist Chinese diplomats in Washington opened a liaison office in a dozen rooms in the Mayflower Hotel. In 1979, a year after the United States recognized the communist regime and cut relations with Taiwan, China purchased the old Windsor Park Hotel on Connecticut Avenue to serve as its embassy.

July 31, 2008

Embassy Row

Cliff Bond, returning to his congressional staff job after a year in Bosnia, praised authorities of the new pro-Western government in Serbia for apprehending Radovan Karadzic and called for authorities to track down Ratko Mladic.

July 30, 2008

Embassy Row

Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez is beginning to alienate some of his coalition partners who are worried about his increasingly radical agenda, government mismanagement, inflation and food shortages, according to a report from the International Crisis Group.

July 29, 2008

Embassy Row

Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani of Pakistan will meet with President Bush Monday and address an evening forum sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations and the Middle East Institute.

July 28, 2008

Embassy Row

Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini is due in Washington next week to reassure the Bush administration that the conservative government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is one of its strongest European allies.

July 25, 2008