So far, the most important of these is the name of the future Foreign Minister, Antony Blinken. A longtime foreign relations expert has once served as deputy foreign minister in Barack Obama’s administration, with Joe Biden just elected vice president. Blinken’s probable nomination is no surprise.
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Biden wants Jake Sullivan, also a former team member of Barack Obama, to serve as national security adviser. And one-third of the names circulating in the American media environment since Sunday is Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who should be the ambassador to the UN. She, too, is an experienced diplomat who held senior positions under Obama.
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Biden wants to replace Avril Haines as Director of the Secret Service (DNI), who would become the first woman in her post in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York. Janet Yellen, who is a candidate for the post of Minister of Finance, could also become the first woman in her position. Yellen was the first woman to head the Fed’s headquarters between 214 and 2018. If confirmed by the Senate, she would be the first person to lead the White House Council of Economic Advisers in her career. , the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank.
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Biden wants to head Alejandro Mayorkas, a lawyer with Cuban roots, who previously served as Deputy Minister of Homeland Security, as head of the Ministry of Homeland Security. Former Secretary of State John Kerry, who held the same position in the Obama administration between 2013 and 2017, will be in charge of climate change in Biden’s future cabinet. In 2004, he also unsuccessfully ran for president against George W. Bush.
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The current choice suggests a bit where the foreign policy of the new US administration, which will take office in January 2021, is likely to go.
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Antony Blinken began his career in high diplomacy during the reign of Democrat Bill Clinton. He has a reputation as a calm negotiator with many years of experience. He and Biden have been close for about twenty years, helping him with the campaign back in 2008. This year, too, he was part of a close team as a consultant on foreign issues.
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Fifty-eight-year-old Blinken is associated with their biggest foreign policy moves due to his long-term work for democratic presidents. For Barack Obama, for example, it is the killing of the terrorist Osama bin Laden. Already as an advisor, he helped devise strategies for American influence in the Middle East, including negotiations on a nuclear agreement with Iran.
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The future Secretary of State grew up in the United States and France. He studied at Harvard and law at Columbia University. His father was the US ambassador to Hungary. Blinken himself worked as a lawyer and briefly even as a journalist. But later he got to the White House, where he worked for many decades.
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He calls Biden Blinken a “superstar.” He is said to be able to prove everything. American average Antony Blinken is more or less called Biden’s alter ego. The problem in the US Senate, which must sanctify Biden’s election, is not expected from Blinken.
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Jake Sullivan’s work is probably most closely associated with Hillary Clinton when she served as US Secretary of State. He was also a key member of her presidential campaign in 2016. In the past four years, he has focused mainly on essay and theoretical work, for example, he has written several texts on the relationship between foreign policy and the economy.
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Linda Thomas-Greenfield, an African-American and longtime diplomat, has also worked as an ambassador to Liberia, a commissioner for African affairs, or the human resources department at the U.S. Office of Government. In 2017, however, she was recalled by Donald Trump.
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Joe Biden is due to make the inaugural pledge on January 20, 2021. His opponent in the presidential election, Donald Trump, has not yet acknowledged the defeat and questions the results in several states.
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