Ladies in Beijing have a new heartthrob and it's  ... drum roll, please ... U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Chris Hill. Reports the AP, under the headline, "Chinese girls enamored by boyish US envoy":

He's so charming and attractive," said Li Kenna, a desk clerk at the five-star hotel Hill stays at in Beijing. "He sometimes asks me how I am in the mornings," she said. "He's one of our nicest guests."

And you thought policy wonks could only get girls in Washington.