鲍卡斯获任驻华大使突显白宫急缺中国通

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Mark Landler, 鲍卡斯获任驻华大使突显白宫急缺中国通. 纽约时报中文网, Dec 21, 2013
cn.nytimes.com/world/20131221/c23baucus/

, which is translated from

Mark Landler, Despite Baucus Nomination, Critics Cite Void in China Lineup. New York Times, Dec 21, 2013.

Quote:

"Mr Obama’s unusual 'shirt-sleeves summit' meeting with President Xi Jinping in June at a desert estate in Southern California, by most accounts, failed to break the ice.

"'The hunt for the China person in the administration is a scavenger hunt that misses the fundamental point, which is that U.S.-China relations is a team sport and the team captain is President Obama,' said Daniel R Russel, the assistant secretary of state for East Asian affairs, who previously was in charge of Asia policy at the National Security Council.

Note:
(a) shirtsleeve (n):
"the sleeve of a shirt
— in one's shirtsleeves or in shirtsleeves
:  wearing a shirt but no coat"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shirtsleeve
(b) "In Mr. Obama’s first term, Mrs Clinton and Mr Geithner both laid claim to China. Mr Geithner, the son of an Asia expert at the Ford Foundation who studied Mandarin, steeped himself in China issues during a previous stint at the Treasury Department. What Mrs Clinton lacked in training, she made up for in mileage, making her first trip as secretary of state to Asia and returning regularly to Beijing."

Timothy Geithner
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Geithner
(1961- ; His father [Peter Franz Geithner; born in Germany] was the director of the Asia program at the Ford Foundation in New York in the 1990s)

Quote: "He attended Dartmouth College, as did his father and paternal grandfather, graduating in 1983 with an AB in government and Asian studies. He studied Mandarin at Peking University in 1981 and at Beijing Normal University in 1982 and earned an MA in international economics and East Asian studies from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in 1985. He has also studied Japanese.