My experience

Overview

Biggest project was doing a weekly research report of news articles to see what was happening related to China in a designated set of countries in the East Asia and Pacific region

They don't do a great job of professional development, so you have to be very proactive about asking for opportunities and learning. My boss wasn't usually very responsive and I got the sense that was pretty common -- they're all underpaid and understaffed. Very reflective of the work of a diplomat, though. Learned it wasn't for me which was helpful