On 17 July 2023, the Chinese Ministry for Foreign Affairs formally announced online that Wu Wei (吴伟) had been appointed as the new Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). Ambassador Wu’s nomination was first made public early March 2023, when Micronesia’s outgoing President, David Panuelo, revealed in a letter that he had rejected Ambassador Wu’s nomination out of national interest. This left the position vacant for longer than anticipated, as Ambassador Huang Zheng (黄峥), Wu’s predecessor, had already departed the FSM in December 2022.