黄耀毅, 会中文的将军加入白宫国安会:对中国要坚定. VOA Chinese, June 22, 2017.
https://www.voachinese.com/a/us- ... 170621/3910541.html
Note:
(a) "罗伯特.史帕丁准将(Brigadier General Robert Spalding III )已在美国空军服役26年,他是B-2幽灵 [B-2 Spirit] 战略轰炸机,以及B-52轰炸机的飞行员。但他对于战略也很有兴趣,所以在美国国防部的语言学院上中文课,也曾经到上海同济大学学习中文,现在能讲流利的中文跟西班牙语。他曾任美国国防部 '中国、蒙古与台湾科' 科长,以及五角大楼战略规划与政策办公室的幕僚。他最近的职务是美国驻中国北京大使馆武官。而在本星期一,就是2017年6月19号,新的人事命令宣布他担任白宫国家安全会战略规划高级主任 [senior director, strategic planning]。由于人事令是在本周一发布的"
(i) "In the United States Army, United States Air Force and United States Marine Corps, a brigadier general is a one-star general officer. It is equivalent to the rank of rear admiral (lower half) in the other uniformed services." en.wikipedia.org
(ii) "在美国国防部的语言学院上中文课"
Defense Language Institute
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Language_Institute
consists of Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC; based in Monterey, Ca) and the Defense Language Institute English Language Center (DLIELC; based in St Antonio, TX)
(iii) Brigadier General Robert Spalding III. US Air Force, undated.
http://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biogr ... ert-s-spalding-iii/
Quote:
"General Spalding received his commission through Fresno State University’s Reserve Officer Training Corps program in 1991. * * *
EDUCATION:
1987 BS in agricultural business, Fresno State University, Calif
1993 MS in agricultural business, Fresno State University, Calif
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2007 Doctorate in economics and mathematics, University of Missouri, Kansas City
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2008 MS in strategic studies, Air University, Maxwell AFB, Ala
ASSIGNMENTS:
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6. June 2001 - June 2002, Chinese-Mandarin student, Defense Language Institute, Monterey, Calif.
7. July 2002 - April 2004, Olmsted Scholar, Tongji University, Shanghai
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17. July 2013 - June 2014, military fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, New York
18. June 2014 - July 2016, chief, China, Mongolia, Taiwan Division, Joint Staff, J-5, the Pentagon, Washington, DC
19. December 2016 - present, United States senior defense official and defense attaché to China, Beijing
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PUBLICATIONS:
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'Businessmen's Risk Perception in China following the 1999 Chinese Embassy bombing and the 2001 EP-3 Incident,' doctoral dissertation, Proquest Dissertations, 2007"
(A) Proquest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProQuest
(content includ[es] dissertations and theses, among others)
is a company that manages a research database.
(B) J5 is a division of in many American military units, from Joint Chief of Staff (whose J5 is also known as "Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate") to United States Africa Command (where J5 is "Strategy, Plans, and Programs")
(C) Joint Chiefs of Staff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Chiefs_of_Staff
(section 4.1 Directorates of the Joint Staff)
(D) I search the Web with the both Pentagon and "China, Mongolia, Taiwan Division," or just "Taiwan division," -- even "China, Mongolia, Taiwan" -- and only (a)(iii) comes up. So something is wrong with that term.
(E) Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs. US Department of Defense, undated
http://policy.defense.gov/OUSDP- ... c-Security-Affairs/
( ASD (APSA) ; portfolio includes "East Asia (EAS): China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Japan, South Korea, and North Korea")
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