If yo have not read
Challenging the US Is a Historic Mistake
www.yilubbs.com/thread-110255-1-1.html
, maybe you want to, not because Robert Kagan's chest=beating, but because the backgrounds of Japan's negotiation with the US prior to Pearl Harbor attack.
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【独家】白宫高官即将出任美国在台协会主席. RFA, Feb 17, 2023.
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/Xinwen/15-02172023192423.html
Note:
(a)
(i) "莫健大使是在 2016 年 10 月接任美国在台协会主席。"
This does not mean AIT chairman was, is or will be an ambassador. "莫健大使" -- Ambassador Moriarty -- came from his posting once upon the time. See
James F Moriarty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_F._Moriarty
(a "career foreign service officer * * * From 2008 to 2011, he was the U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh. * * * ")
(ii) The Irish surname Moriarty is "Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Muircheartaigh 'descendant of Muircheartach' a personal name from muir 'sea' + ceardach 'skilled' i.e. 'skilled navigator.' "
(b) "据美国有线新闻网(CNN)援引一位美国官员的话说"
Betsy Klein, Top Biden China Aide Set for Long-Planned Departure amid Heightened Tension with Beijing. CNN, Feb 15, 2023.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/15/p ... ina-aide/index.html
(c)
(i) Laura Rosenberger: guest speaker in The Wilson China Fellowship Conference 2022. Feb 14-16, 2022
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/laura-rosenberger
("Laura Rosenberger serves as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for China and Taiwan on the National Security Council (NSC) at the White House. Rosenberger was most recently the director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy and a senior fellow at The German Marshall Fund (GMF) of the United States. Prior to that, she was foreign policy advisor for Hillary for America. Rosenberger previously served for over a decade in a range of positions at the State Department and the NSC. As chief of staff to Deputy Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and earlier as then-Deputy National Security Advisor Blinken's senior advisor * * * ")
Blinken was Deputy National Security Advisor (2013-2015) and Deputy Secretary of State (2015-2017). en.wikipedia.org.
(ii) Rosenberger's education: BA in three majors ( from Penn State University in 2002; MA from American University’s School of International Service for international peace and conflict resolution, in 2004.
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