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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

Carlos Pascual, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico who resigned last weekend in a diplomatic scandal that outraged officials south of the border, remains at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, where he is helping with a transition to a new chief of mission.

March 24, 2011

Embassy Row

The Obama administration might seem confused about the war aims in Libya, but the British are as clear as Waterford crystal.

March 22, 2011

Embassy Row

The Japanese ambassador says his distressed nation is grateful to Americans for their support for victims of the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11.

March 20, 2011

Embassy Row

In a gripping speech about "hell" in the sky and poisonous gas on the ground, the Iraqi ambassador this week commemorated the anniversary of Saddam Hussein's genocide against Iraqi Kurds.

March 17, 2011

Embassy Row

Secret U.S. Embassy cables that implicated the president of Indonesia in widespread corruption sparked angry demonstrations this week in the capital, Jakarta, and reports of a billion-dollar lawsuit against the embassy.

March 15, 2011

Roos

Embassy Row

The U.S. Embassy in Tokyo is searching for Americans in Japan and dispatching relief teams with military precision as U.S. diplomats respond to the devastating earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that crippled America's closest Asian ally.

March 13, 2011

Roos

Embassy Row

The U.S. ambassador to Japan rushed to Okinawa Thursday to apologize for insulting remarks attributed to a State Department official in Washington who reportedly called Okinawa residents "masters of manipulation and extortion" who are "too lazy" to grow their own vegetables.

March 10, 2011

Embassy Row

President Obama is widely expected to appoint Commerce Secretary Gary F. Locke as the first Chinese-American ambassador to China to replace Jon Huntsman, who is retiring next month to consider running for the Republican presidential nomination.

March 8, 2011

Embassy Row

The career ambassador whom Moammar Gadhafi appointed to replace diplomatic defectors at the United Nations is well-known in Washington, where he wooed oil executives and foreign policy analysts after the Libyan dictator ditched his weapons of mass destruction.

March 6, 2011

Embassy Row

Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren says his country hopes the unrest sweeping the Arab world will produce democratic governments that pose no threat to the Jewish state.

March 3, 2011

Embassy Row

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will give "a gift to the mullahs" who oppress the Iranian people, if she fails to remove the Iranian resistance from the U.S. blacklist of terrorist groups, a visiting member of the European Parliament said Tuesday.

March 1, 2011

Embassy Row

The Arab League ambassador to the United States said he would be comfortable with a limited and secular role for the shadowy Muslim Brotherhood in a new democratic Egyptian government.

February 27, 2011

Huntsman

Embassy Row

Chinese censors scrubbed the name of U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman from Chinese-language Internet searches after he appeared in online videos near a pro-democracy demonstration in Beijing on Sunday.

February 24, 2011

Embassy Row

Turkish Ambassador Namik Tan dodged tough questions from an Armenian-American journalist who pressed him on the destruction of churches in Turkey and the Armenian "genocide" in World War I.

February 22, 2011

**FILE** Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy (Associated Press)

Embassy Row

The former U.S. ambassador to Italy described Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as a self-obsessed politician who has offended Italians of "nearly every demographic" and damaged Italy's reputation in Europe and Washington, where many U.S. officials see a "comic tone" to his behavior.

February 20, 2011

Embassy Row

Muslim extremists linked to Hezbollah and al Qaeda are operating in Chile, where they provide "significant" financial aid to the Arab terrorist groups, according to the U.S. Embassy in Santiago.

February 17, 2011

Embassy Row

The former U.S. ambassador to Bahrain called King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa a pro-American, reform-minded monarch in a secret diplomatic cable 14 months ago, but now the ruler of the key Persian Gulf kingdom is facing massive street demonstrations and demands for an end to his dynasty.

February 15, 2011

Embassy Row

The ambassador from the Ivory Coast, like the defeated president who appointed him, is refusing to give up his position in Washington, even though the State Department recognized a new envoy named by the internationally recognized winner of November's presidential election.

February 13, 2011

Embassy Row

President Obama this week renominated a prominent Christian pastor to serve as ambassador for international religious freedom in a move that reignited a debate over whether she is qualified for the high-profile position that has been vacant for two years.

February 10, 2011

Embassy Row

The former U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg, a close political ally of President Obama's, was so "aggressive, bullying, hostile and intimidating" to her staff that she drove several top diplomats to appeal for transfers from the posh northern European nation to Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a State Department report.

February 8, 2011