For Better or For Worse, US Is All Eyes on China

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(1) 美國防部亞太官員換血. Liberty Times, Apr 9, 2011.
http://libertytimes.com.tw/2011/new/apr/9/today-p2.htm

My comment:
(a) As is the practice, the report was published around 3 pm yesterday Eastern Daylight Time (because Taiwan is half a day ahead of EDT). I waited but have found no American news report to confirm or deny the appointments.
(b) The report states "唐安竹即將出任國防部主管中國、蒙古與台灣的科長"

唐安竹 Drew Thompson of a DC think tank Nixon Center. "On March 9, 2011 it was renamed The Center for the National Interest" (CFTNI). Wikipedia.
http://www.cftni.org/index33d2.html?action=showpage&page=thompson
("Drew Thompson was the Director of China Studies and Starr Senior Fellow at the Center for the National Interest in Washington, D.C., until April 8, 2011, when he took a position with the Department of Defense")
(c) The report also says "再加上白宮國家安全會議資深官員李波特將接替國防部亞太助理部長葛瑞格森."

(i) 李波特 Mark Lippert
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lippert
, whose reference 2 is:
Al Kamen, Deputy National Security Adviser Is Returning to Duty With the Navy. Washington Post, Oct 1, 2009
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/10/obama-adviser-to-leave-white-h.html
(is deputy national security adviser for operations and serves as chief of staff of the National Security Council)

(ii) It is said that his appintment to the new post was reported at the end of March 2011 by Nelson Report, which only subscribers can access.
(iii) The post is assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific security affairs.
(iv) The predecessor is Wallace “Chip” Gregson 葛瑞格森.

(d) 薛邁龍 R. Michael Schiffer, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific security
affairs (who will be the deputy to Mr Lippert).

WRITTEN STATEMENT OF MR. R. MICHAEL SCHIFFER DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, EAST ASIA BEFORE THE HOUSE ARMED SERVICES SUBCOMMITTEE ON READINESS, 15 MARCH 2011 (censored version).
http://hongkong.usconsulate.gov/ustw_dod_2011031501.html


(2) Mark Landler, Shakeup Could Affect Tone of US Policy on China; a reminder to China that the Washington has other friends in the region. New York Times, Apr 9, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/09/world/asia/09diplomacy.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=shakeup&st=cse

My comment: Mr James Steinberg's replacement, William Joseph Burns is undersecretary of state department and was US ambassador to Russia (2005-2008).


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