- Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (/ˈzbɪɡnjɛf bʒɛˈʒɪnski/ ZBIG-nyef bzheh-ZHIN-skee; Polish: Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński [ˈzbʲiɡɲɛf kaˈʑimʲɛʂ bʐɛˈʑiɲskʲi] Polish pronunciation ; March 28, 1928 – May 26, 2017) was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist. He served as a counselor to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968 and was President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981. Brzezinski belonged to the realist school of international relations, standing in the geopolitical tradition of Halford Mackinder and Nicholas J. Spykman. Major foreign policy events during his time in office included the normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China (and the severing of ties with the Republic of China on Taiwan); the signing of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II); the brokering of the Camp David Accords; the transition of Iran from an important U.S. ally to an anti-Western Islamic Republic; encouraging dissidents in Eastern Europe and emphasizing human rights in order to undermine the influence of the Soviet Union;[4] the arming of the mujahideen in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; and the signing of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties relinquishing U.S. control of the Panama Canal after 1999.Zbigniew Brzezinski was born in Warsaw, Poland, on March 28, 1928. His family hailed from Brzeżany in Galicia in the Tarnopol Voivodeship (administrative region) of then eastern Poland (now in Ukraine). The town of Brzeżany is thought to be the source of the family name. Brzezinski's parents were Leonia (née Roman) and Tadeusz Brzeziński, a Polish diplomat who was posted to Germany from 1931 to 1935; Zbigniew Brzezinski thus spent some of his earliest years witnessing the rise of the Nazis.[7] From 1936 to 1938, Tadeusz Brzeziński was posted to the Soviet Union during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge.[8] Israel later praised his father for having helped Jews escape from the Nazis.
- Brzezinski was married to Czech-American sculptor Emilie Benes (grand-niece of the second Czechoslovak president, Edvard Beneš), with whom he had three children. His son, Mark Brzezinski (b. 1965), a lawyer who served on President Clinton's National Security Council as an expert on Russia and Southeastern Europe and who was a partner in McGuire Woods LLP, served as the US ambassador to Sweden (November 24, 2011, to July 1, 2015). His daughter, Mika Brzezinski (b. 1967), is a television news presenter and co-host of MSNBC's weekday morning program, Morning Joe, where she provides regular commentary and reads the news headlines for the program. His eldest son, Ian Brzezinski (b. 1963), is a Senior Fellow in the International Security Program and is on the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Advisors Group. Ian also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO and was a principal at Booz Allen Hamilton. Key highlights of his tenure as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO Policy (2001–2005) include the expansion of NATO membership in 2004, the consolidation and reconfiguration of the Alliance’s command structure, the standing up of the NATO Response Force and the coordination of European military contributions to U.S.- and NATO-led operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans.
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170528/PDF/a20_screen.pdf biography
- Cyrus Roberts Vance (March 27, 1917 – January 12, 2002) was an American lawyer and United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1980.[1] Prior to that position he was theSecretary of the Army and the Deputy Secretary of Defense. As Secretary of State, Vance approached foreign policy with an emphasis on negotiation over conflict and a special interest in arms reduction. In April 1980, Vance resigned in protest of Operation Eagle Claw, the secret mission to rescueAmerican hostages in Iran. He was succeeded in the position by Edmund Muskie. Vance was the cousin (and adoptive son) of 1924 Democratic presidential candidateand lawyer John W. Davis.
- Alexander Meigs Haig Jr. (December 2, 1924 – February 20, 2010) was a United States Army general who served as theUnited States Secretary of State underPresident Ronald Reagan and White House Chief of Staff under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
- Pro israel
- George Pratt Shultz (born December 13, 1920) is an American economist, statesman, and businessman. He served as the United States Secretary of Laborfrom 1969 to 1970, as the director of theOffice of Management and Budget from 1970 to 1972, as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1972 to 1974, and as theU.S. Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989. Before entering politics, he was professor of economics at MIT and the University of Chicago, serving as Dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Businessfrom 1962 to 1969. From 1974 to 1982, he was an executive of the Bechtel Group, an engineering and services company. In the 2010s, Shultz was a prominent figure in the scandal of the biotech firm Theranos, continuing to support it as a board member in the face of mounting evidence of fraud.Shultz was born December 13, 1920, in New York City, the only child of Margaret Lennox (née Pratt) and Birl Earl Shultz. He grew up in Englewood, New Jersey.[7] His great-grandfather was an immigrant from Germany who arrived in the United States in the middle of the 19th century. Contrary to common assumption, Shultz was not a member of the Pratt family associated with John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Trust.
- Thomas Alfred Shannon Jr. (born 1958) is an American diplomat and the current Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. In early 2017, Shannon served as acting United States Secretary of State until President Donald Trump's nominee, Rex Tillerson, was confirmed. He was also acting Deputy Secretary of State of the United States until the Senate confirmed President Trump's nominee, John J. Sullivan. Since 1984, Shannon has worked in the United States Foreign Service, and he has served in embassies around the world. From 2005 to 2009, he was Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, and from 2010 to 2013 he was United States Ambassador to Brazil. From 2013 to 2016, he was Counselor of the United States Department of State, and was also acting Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs in 2011. On February 2, 2016, the Senate confirmed Shannon as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.[2] Just under two years later, the Associated Press reported that Shannon would be stepping down from the post pending the naming of a successor.- Richard Harvey Solomon (June 19, 1937 – March 13, 2017) was United States Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 1989 to 1992, after which he was Ambassador to the Philippines. In September 1993, he became president of the United States Institute of Peace, a position he held until September 2012. He subsequently joined the RAND Corporation as a Senior Fellow.Richard H. Solomon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 28, 1937. He was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1960, and a PhD in political science with a specialization in Chinese politics in 1966. In 1966, Solomon became a professor of political science at the University of Michigan. He left in 1971 to become a staff member of the United States National Security Council (NSC), responsible for Asian Affairs. In this position, he worked with NSC Adviser Henry Kissinger on the normalization of relations with China.
- Kelly Knight Craft (née Guilfoil; born February 24, 1962)[1] is an American businesswoman and diplomat who is the United States Ambassador to Canada; she is the first woman to be the United States Ambassador to Canada.[2][3][4] In 2007, she was appointed by President George W. Bush as a U.S. alternate delegate to the United Nations, where her focus included U.S. engagement in Africa.[5][6] She was a delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Kentucky.[5] She headed Kelly G. Knight LLC, a business advisory firm based in Lexington, Kentucky.[7] On February 22, 2019, President Trump nominated Craft to be the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.Knight Craft was born in 1962, the daughter of the late veterinarian Dr. Bobby Guilfoil and Sherry Dale Guilfoil.[9] Her father was a Democratic Party activist who once served as chairman of the Barren County, KentuckyDemocratic Party.[1] She grew up in Glasgow, Kentucky, and graduated from Glasgow High School in 1980.[10] She graduated with a B.A. from the University of Kentucky in 1984.Knight Craft has been married three times and divorced twice. She married David S. Moross and then Judson Knight.[12] She wed Joe Craft in April 2016.[22] Her husband is a billionaire coal-mining executive for Alliance Resource Partners, L.P., the third-largest coal producer in the eastern United States.
- 美國駐香港及澳門總領事唐偉康在本月底任滿離任。美國駐香港及澳門總領事館昨宣布，美國國務卿蓬佩奧（Mike Pompeo）已委任史墨客（Hanscom Smith）接替唐偉康，為下一任美國駐香港及澳門總領事，並於下月起履新。史墨客是位同性戀者，並已與同性配偶成婚。身為高級職業外交官的史墨客，畢業於喬治城大學，擁有倫敦政治經濟學院及普林斯頓大學碩士學位，以及巴黎政治學院政治研究證書。獲委任前在國務院出任主管中國事務處的副助理國務卿。史墨客曾經出任美國駐上海總領事，國務院中國及蒙古事務處處長。他任職美國駐上海總領事時，公開宣布是同性戀者，而配偶呂英宗來自台北。二人在史墨客於二○○六年至一○年任職美國在台協會時相識，其後於二○一六年在美國結婚。史墨客也曾於多個美國駐外使領館工作，包括喀麥隆、丹麥、柬埔寨、泰國、阿富汗及中國，亦曾於國務院的日本事務處及美國在台協會任職，也曾領導美國在伊拉克穆薩納省的重建工作。出生於美國緬因州的史墨客懂得中文、法文、丹麥語及柬埔寨語。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20190615/00176_020.html
- The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed former Air Force General David Stilwell to be the State Department’s top diplomat for East Asia, a post that had remained unfilled for more than two years despite major challenges in the region. The 94-3 Senate vote to approve Stilwell as assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs came nearly eight months after President Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate the former career fighter pilot, who speaks Korean, Chinese and some Japanese, for the job. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-asia-stilwell/senate-confirms-ex-air-force-general-stilwell-as-top-diplomat-for-east-asia-idUSKCN1TE2SA
- Kurt Douglas Volker (born December 27, 1964)[3] is an American diplomat who served as the U.S. Ambassador to NATO and presently serves as executive director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership. He worked in a volunteer capacity as the U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine until his resignation on September 27, 2019. Kurt Volker was born in 1964 in Pennsylvania, to Benjamin and Thelma (Rowdon) Volker.[6] He graduated from Temple University with a B.A. in International Affairs in 1984. He also holds an M.A. in International Relations from The George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs.Volker began his career in foreign affairs as an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency in 1986.[3] In 1988, he joined the United States Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer in the United States Foreign Service.[3] While in the Foreign Service, he served in various assignments overseas including London and Brussels, and the US Embassy in Budapest (1994–1997). Volker was special assistant to the United States special envoy for Bosnia negotiations, Richard Holbrooke. Volker served as a legislative fellow on the staff of Senator John McCain from 1997 to 1998. In 1998, he became first secretary of the US mission to NATO, and in 1999 he was sent to Deputy Director of NATO Secretary-General George Robertson's private office, serving in that position until 2001. He then became acting director for European and Eurasian Affairs for the National Security Council. In that capacity he was in charge of US preparations for 2004 Istanbul summit of NATO members and the 2002 Prague summit. In July 2005, Volker became the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, serving in that position until he was appointed United States Permanent Representative to NATO in July 2008 by President George W. Bush.[8] Volker served in that position from July 2, 2008 to May 15, 2009.
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- Gordon David Sondland (born July 16, 1957) is an American diplomat and businessperson. He is the United States Ambassador to the European Union.[3] Sondland is also the founder and former chairman of Provenance Hotels and co-founder of the merchant bank Aspen Capital.Sondland was born to a Jewish family[4][5] in Mercer Island, Washington,[6] the son of Frieda (Piepsch) and Gunther Sondland.[7][8] His mother fled Germany before the Second World War[9] to Uruguay, where after the war she reunited with his father, who had served in the French Foreign Legion. In 1953, the Sondlands relocated to Seattle where they opened a dry-cleaning business.[10] Sondland has a sister 18 years his senior.[10] He attended the University of Washington but dropped out and became a commercial real estate salesman.In 1993, Sondland married Katherine Durant,[10] who is the founder and managing partner of Atlas/RTG, a holding company with a portfolio of shopping centers throughout Oregon.[citation needed] Until 2016, Durant was the Chairperson of the Oregon Investment Council, the body that oversees the over $85 billion Public Employees Retirement System Fund.
east european origin
- Marie Louise Yovanovitch (born 1958)[1] is a member of the senior ranks of the United States Foreign Service who served as the 9th United States Ambassador to Ukraine. She was nominated to the post on May 18, 2016, to replace Geoff Pyatt,[2][3] was sworn in on August 18, 2016,[4] and was recalled as of May 20, 2019.[5] She is a diplomat in residence at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. Yovanovitch was the United States Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan from November 20, 2004, to February 4, 2008, and the United States Ambassador to Armenia from August 1, 2008, to June 3, 2011. Marie Yovanovitch is the daughter of Mikhail Yovanovitch and Nadia (Theokritoff) Yovanovitch.[9] Her paternal grandparents were of Russian Serbian origin. She was born in Canada, moved to Connecticut when she was three, and became a naturalized American citizen at age eighteen. She grew up speaking Russian. Yovanovitch is a graduate of Kent School, a private boarding school in Connecticut, and Princeton University, where she earned a B.A. in History and Russian Studies in 1980. She studied at the Pushkin Institute (1980) and was awarded an M.S. from the National Defense University's National War College in 2001.Yovanovitch joined the U.S. foreign service in 1986. Her first foreign assignment, in Ottawa, was followed by overseas assignments including Moscow, London, and Mogadishu.[10] From May 1998 to May 2000 she served as the Deputy Director of the Russian Desk in the U.S. Department of State. From August 2001 to June 2004, as a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, she was the Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine.[11] From August 2004 to May 2005 she was the Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.
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- Lael Brainard (born 1962, Hamburg, West Germany[1]) is an American economist and member of the U.S. Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, where she serves as Administrative Governor and Chair of the Committees on Financial Stability, Federal Reserve Bank Affairs, Consumer and Community Affairs, and Payments, Clearing and Settlements.Lael Brainard, daughter of the U.S. foreign-service officer and Diplomat[9] Alfred Brainard grew up in West Germany and later Poland in the period before the Revolutions of 1989 and the Fall of the Berlin Wall.[10][11][12] She graduated with university honors from Wesleyan University with a bachelor of arts degree from the College of Social Studies.[3] Brainard received masters and doctoral degrees in economics from Harvard University, where she was a National Science Foundation Fellow.Brainard started her career at McKinsey & Company advising corporate clients on strategic challenges and she has also worked on microenterprise in West Africa.
east european specialists
- ft 2oct19 white house loses east europe specialists
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east european specialists
- ft 2oct19 white house loses east europe specialists
links with chinese
- Linda Thomas-Greenfield (born November 22,[citation needed] 1952) is an American diplomat who is the United States Ambassador-Designate to the United Nations under President Joe Biden. A member of the Democratic Party[citation needed], she served as the United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 2013 to 2017. Thomas-Greenfield then served in the private sector as a senior vice president at Albright Stonebridge Group in Washington, D.C.Thomas-Greenfield was born in Baker, Louisiana. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Louisiana State University in 1974 and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1975.During the confirmation hearing on her nomination for the U.N. ambasssador, Thomas-Greenfield said she regretted giving a speech to a Beijing-backed Confucius Institute in 2019 when she was working for a private consulting firm. She largely agreed with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on international policies, raising concerns about China's "malign force" and "debt traps and tactics" in Africa and beyond.[19][20] In February 2021, it was reported that Ted Cruz of Texas was delaying a committee vote on her nomination due to those comments on China.
- 美國駐成都現任總領事林杰偉（Jim Mullinax）很熱愛中華文化，大學時曾在四川師大學習，更娶了台灣出生的美食作家莊祖宜為妻，外母是成都人，自稱是「四川女婿」，近日內地傳媒翻出林杰偉 深情唱《成都》的影片：「和我在成都的街頭走一走，直到所有的燈都熄滅了也不停留」。2017上任的林杰偉他的大部分職業生涯都在亞洲度過，曾派駐菲律賓、印尼、台北、香港及上海等地，能講一口流利的普通話，由於酷愛中國文化，去年當得知美國駐成都總領事的職位空缺後，林杰偉 馬上填寫了申請表。而他的這一決定，當然得到了太太莊祖宜的大力支持。祖宜因出版第一本書《廚房裏的人類學家》而成名，隨夫派駐香港時，曾到米芝蓮二星的「Amber」餐廳實習3個月；移居上海期間，生了兩個小孩，同時錄製一系列烹飪教學影片。https://std.stheadline.com/realtime/article/1329301/即時-中國-美國駐成都總領事林杰偉-熱愛中華文化自稱-四川女婿
- 美國駐成都現任總領事林杰偉（Jim Mullinax）很熱愛中華文化，大學時曾在四川師大學習，更娶了台灣出生的美食作家莊祖宜為妻，外母是成都人，自稱是「四川女婿」，近日內地傳媒翻出林杰偉 深情唱《成都》的影片：「和我在成都的街頭走一走，直到所有的燈都熄滅了也不停留」。2017上任的林杰偉他的大部分職業生涯都在亞洲度過，曾派駐菲律賓、印尼、台北、香港及上海等地，能講一口流利的普通話，由於酷愛中國文化，去年當得知美國駐成都總領事的職位空缺後，林杰偉 馬上填寫了申請表。而他的這一決定，當然得到了太太莊祖宜的大力支持。祖宜因出版第一本書《廚房裏的人類學家》而成名，隨夫派駐香港時，曾到米芝蓮二星的「Amber」餐廳實習3個月；移居上海期間，生了兩個小孩，同時錄製一系列烹飪教學影片。https://std.stheadline.com/realtime/article/1329301/即時-中國-美國駐成都總領事林杰偉-熱愛中華文化自稱-四川女婿
- Joseph M. Young is an American diplomat who became chargé d'affaires ad interim at the U.S. Embassy Tokyo on July 20, 2019 after the resignation of Bill Hagerty. Young is a career member of the U.S. Senior Foreign Service who served as Deputy Chief of Mission at Embassy Tokyo from 2017 to 2019.1996年8月から1997年6月まで外務職員局所属で、ワシントンD.C.で経済研究員として勤務[2][1]。1997年8月から1999年6月まで外務職員局所属で、ワシントンD.C.および中国の北京で中国語研修を受講[2]。1999年7月から2002年7月まで中国の在北京大使館で経済部に勤務[2][1]、当時は中国語の名前「楊舟」（ヤン・ゾウ）を付ける[3]。2002年8月から2004年6月まで国務省経済・エネルギー・実業局で航空交渉部に勤務[2][1]。2004年7月から2007年7月までアイルランドの在ダブリン大使館で政治経済課長[2]。2007年8月から2009年6月まで外務職員局所属で、ワシントンD.C.および日本の横浜で日本語研修を受講[2]。2009年7月から2012年6月まで日本の在東京大使館で政治軍事課長[2]。2012年8月からアメリカ太平洋軍外交政策次席顧問[2]。2014年8月から国務省東アジア・太平洋局日本部長[4]。2017年8月から在日米国大使館首席公使 2019年7月にウィリアム・F・ハガティ駐日アメリカ合衆国大使が退任してアメリカ合衆国本国へ帰国したことにより、ハガティの後任大使となる者が新たに着任するまでの間、臨時代理大使を務める[6]。2019年10月22日、皇居正殿松の間で今上陛下の即位礼正殿の儀が執り行われ[7]、イレーン・チャオ運輸長官と共に参列した[8]。
pro-communist china?
- Susan Ashton Thornton[2] was an American diplomat and former acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.Prior to working at the State Department, Thornton worked at the Foreign Policy Institute where she studied and wrote about Soviet politics and contemporary Russia. She speaks Russian and Mandarin Chinese. Thornton is a career diplomat who has worked at the State Department since 1991. She has previously served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian Affairs since February 2016 and before that she worked as the Deputy Chief of Mission to the United States Embassy in Turkmenistan. She was appointed as acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs on March 9, 2017 and on December 24 she was nominated as the Assistant Secretary of State by President Trump. After failure to secure a Senate confirmation due to her pro-Communist China views, Susan Thornton was forced to retire on August 2018.董雲裳進入國務院工作前，曾於約翰·霍普金斯大學保羅·H·尼采高級國際研究學院的外交政策研究所，並曾於該所研究蘇聯政治、當代俄語，能口說俄語和漢語，並被視為國務院內首要的漢學家之一[3]。身為1991年起入院工作的職業外交官，歷任東亞事務首席副助卿（2016年2月起）、美國駐土庫曼大使館副館長、國務院中國暨蒙古事務處副處長、韓國事務處經濟組長等職，曾駐外館包括駐華大使館、駐成都總領事館、駐亞美尼亞大使館、駐哈薩克大使館[4]。
- https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3032158/us-passing-hong-kong-human-rights-and-democracy-act-will-only
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