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Jake Sullivan – Foreign Policy Articles
2021-01-18 Biden’s incoming national security adviser calls for Alexei Navalny’s release “Mr. Navalny should be immediately released, and the perpetrators of the outrageous attack on his life must be held accountable. The Kremlin’s attacks on Mr. Navalny are not just a violation of human rights, but an affront to the Russian people who want their voices heard,” Jake Sullivan wrote on Twitter on Sunday.
2020-12-29 Jake Sullivan On Biden Administration’s Approach To National Security
2020-11-27 The inexorable rise of Jake Sullivan “So in the end he’s the only human being who went to 112 countries with Hillary. His capacity for work is just that annoying,” Philippe Reines joked in an interview, one of a dozen for this story.
All that work has clearly paid off: Sullivan, now 43, will be the youngest national security adviser in nearly 60 years when President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated in January — in what those who know him described as an almost-inevitable next step for a man who’s always seemed preternaturally older than his actual age.
After holding top positions at the State Department and in the Obama White House and playing a key role in negotiating the Iran nuclear deal, it’s clear Sullivan is “on the Benjamin Button track,” Reines said, referring to the F. Scott Fitzgerald character who is born into an old man’s body and ages backward. “He is the equivalent of at least a decade, if not two, beyond his biological years.”
2020-11-23 US should encourage China’s rise, Biden national security pick Jake Sullivan says “We need to strike a middle course – one that encourages China’s rise in a manner consistent with an open, fair, rules-based, regional order,” Sullivan said. “This will require care and prudence and strategic foresight, and maybe even more basically it will require sustained attention. It may not have escaped your notice that these are not in ample supply in Washington right now.”
During the same lecture, Sullivan said China policy needs to be about more than just bilateral ties, “it needs to be about our ties to the region that create an environment more conducive to a peaceful and positive sum Chinese rise,” he said.
2020-11-23 Why national security adviser designate Jake Sullivan will be celebrated in China, Iran, and Russia According to multiple reports, including the Washington Examiner’s Naomi Lim, later on Monday, President-elect Joe Biden seems set to copy President Trump’s first mistake and appoint an ill-suited national security adviser.
Vice President Joe Biden’s national security adviser between 2013 and 2014, and Hillary Clinton’s top foreign policy adviser in 2016, Sullivan is a very smart guy and a dedicated patriot. Still, I believe his selection will be received favorably in Moscow, Tehran, and Beijing for all the wrong reasons (North Korea is a curve ball). That may seem like an unfair jab at the 43 year-old, but based on his record and the present national security priorities of each of those governments, it’s not an unfair one. After all, Sullivan was a key architect of the Obama administration’s too-deferential foreign policy structures. Which is to say, its willingness to play softball in the 2013-2015 nuclear negotiations which culminated with the 2015 JCPOA nuclear deal, its appeasement of China, and its failure to counter exponential increases in Russian aggression.
For all of his idiotic praise of Vladimir Putin, President Trump has presided over a strengthened NATO, the delivery of lethal arms to Ukraine (which Obama opposed), and the authorization of more aggressive intelligence operations against Moscow.
Sullivan has a less auspicious record towards Vladimir’s crew. For all the Democratic Party talking points that Trump is Putin’s pet, in an August 2016 interview with the New Yorker, Sullivan offered absurdly optimistic tones on how the U.S. could compromise with Moscow. He said this even as he noted that the Russians were interfering with the 2016 election. Why no call to shutdown the GRU’s mainframes? Or expel the Russian ambassador? Or at least leave some reciprocal gifts in the D.C. apartments of Russian intelligence officers?
2020-11-23 Joe Biden Appoints Minneapolis Native Jake Sullivan As National Security Advisor
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