美台国防工业会议披露美对台军售时机

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VOA Chinese, Oct 5, 2015
www.voachinese.com/content/us-taiwan-20151005/2991664.html
("美方这次将由不久前才被任命为国防部东亚事务副助理部长的邓志强(Abraham Denmark)在会中发表演讲，国务院则没有派人参加今年的会议。美台商业协会会长韩儒伯说，国务院官员仍忙于评估中国领导人习近平访美的效应，无法派人来")

Note:
(a) Ruppert Hammon-Chambers is said to represent interests of US defense industry. Hence naturally he is in favor of sales of any weaponry.
(b) William Lowther, US Promotes Pro-Taiwan Adviser;  STALWART: The US and Taiwan should continue to work closely to enhance Taiwan’s ability to defend itself, the new US deputy assistant secretary has said. Taipei Times, July 8, 2015
www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2015/07/08/2003622541
("In testimony before a US Senate subcommittee last year, Denmark said")
(i) National Bureau of Asian Research
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bureau_of_Asian_Research
(Type: Think Tank; section 1 History)
(ii) Abraham M Denmark Testifies Before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs. NBR, Apr 3, 2014.

two consecutive paragraphs:

"On April 3, 2014, Abraham M. Denmark, NBR Vice President of Political and Security Affairs, testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs at a hearing on Evaluating U.S. Policy on Taiwan on the 35th Anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA).

"Mr Denmark appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on a panel with Randall Schriver, President and Chief Executive Officer, Project 2049 Institute.

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(C) Pentagon appointed Abraham Denmark on July 6, 2015 as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia.
(i) "Appointed"?   Not confirmed by Senate?
(A) The website of Office of Personnel Management (OPM; whose personnel files were hacked, allegedly by Chinese) has a category called "Hiring Authorities." Please read two Web pages under this:
  
* Competitive Hiring
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data- ... competitive-hiring/
* Excepted Service (which can be found in the left column of the Web page; concerning noncompetitive hiring)
(ii) After each presidential election, Congress releases United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions (Plum Book).
(A) Due to its plum-color cover. See the photo in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un ... upporting_Positions
(B) The most recent plum book:

United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, US House of Representative, Dec 1, 2012.
www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-PLUMBOOK-2012/pdf/GPO-PLUMBOOK-2012

* Foreword (in page iii):

"Every four years, just after the Presidential election, the 'United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions,’ commonly known as the Plum Book, is published, alternately, by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the House Committee on Oversight
and Government Reform.

"This publication contains data (as of June 30, 2012) on over 8,000 Federal civil service leadership and support positions in the legislative and executive branches of the Federal Government that may be subject to noncompetitive appointment (e.g., positions such as agency heads and their immediate subordinates, policy executives and advisors, and aides who report to these officials).

* Legend :
"Type of Appointment(Column 4):
PAS = Presidential Appointment with Senate Confirmation"  page v

"Pay Plan (Column 5)
ES = Senior Executive Service"  page vi

* Let's go to Department of Defense, starting page 25. The last item of that page is "Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (East Asia)": "Type of Appt[:] .....; Pay Plan[:] ES"