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Reporter Li Guanzhi / Taipei Report
The Envision Foundation today held the 2020 “Taiwan-United States-Japan Indo-Pacific Trilateral Security Dialogue” seminar (8). President Tsai Ing-wen addressed National Security Council Secretary General Gu Lixiong, Foreign Minister Wu Zhaoxie, Deputy Director of the Office of National Security Ke Chengheng, and other senior national security officials in attendance . In response to escalating threats and military provocations from China in the South China Sea, Tsai Ing-wen said in a speech that Taiwan will join the international response and strive to defend its democratic system and way of life. . However, during the meeting, Tsai Ing-wen also had a video connection with Kurt Campbell, President of The Asia Group and former US Under Secretary for Asia-Pacific. Tsai Ing-wen expressed her pleasure to see Campbell’s vigor and vigor at first. The friendship between the two is obvious, in fact, Tsai Ing-wen and Campo are old friends.
▲ President Tsai Ing-wen attended today the seminar on “Trilateral Dialogue on Indo-Pacific Security between Taiwan, United States and Japan” (8th)
Senior foreign-related officials revealed that when Tsai Ing-wen visited the United States during the June 2015 presidential election, he delivered a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a leading think tank in Washington, which It was chaired by Campo; and after Tsai Ing-wen was elected president. Cambo also visited Taiwan in April 2016. At that time, he also visited Tsai Ing-wen. Foreign Minister Wu Zhaoxie and US Representative Xiao Meiqin have a long-term friendship and interaction with Cambo. Cambo also praised the outstanding performance of the Tsai government team in handling the epidemic through the video today, which can be considered as a model for all countries in the world, and also affirmed the outstanding performance of Xiao Meiqin after going to the United States.
In fact, the friendship between Tsai Ing-wen and Campo dates back to the “Mingde Group” under the chairmanship of Lee Teng-hui. At the time, Lee Teng-hui valued Tsai Ing-wen’s ability in international negotiations and invited her to join the “Mingde Group” tripartite meeting of the US, Japan and Taiwan. This was a communication platform for Taiwanese and US think tanks, high-level diplomats, and national security officials at the time. At the time, Cambo was the representative of the US One, the other well-known representative of the United States is Richard Armitage, who was an undersecretary of state in the Bush administration.
▲ President Tsai Ing-wen’s friendship with Cambo dates back to the “Mingde Group” during Lee Teng-hui’s presidency (photo / provided by the Presidential Palace)
Cambo served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Department of Defense for Asia and the Pacific during the Clinton administration, and also served as Assistant Secretary of the Department of State for Asia and the Pacific in the Obama administration. He is one of Biden’s top diplomatic officials. The media has also referred to Campbell and the assistant secretary of state. Blinken (Antony Blinken), quasi-national security adviser Jake Sullivan, former US ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, and former deputy national security adviser Ely Ratner. One of the “Five Tigers”.
Additionally, it is worth noting that Randy Schriver, who has worked with Campbell in the past, served successively as Deputy Under Secretary for Asia-Pacific under the Bush administration and Under Secretary for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs under the Trump administration. Yue also accompanied Undersecretary of State Keith Krach to visit Taiwan. And another Derek Mitchell, who worked with Campbell, later became the Chief Deputy Under Secretary for Asia and the Pacific in the Obama administration’s Ministry of Defense. He is even more famous as the “son-in-law of Taiwan”.
Campbell, Xue Ruifu and Midway are longtime “good friends of Taiwan” and have considerable influence in Washington foreign policy circles. Perhaps because of this, Campo specifically mentioned today that he and Xue Ruifu had work experience at the Pentagon in the past. At that time, there was a group of people familiar with the Asia-Pacific region, which has gradually expanded in recent years, and they said that there were not that many people 25 years ago. Recognize the importance of Taiwan, but now more people understand the importance of maintaining a strong relationship with Taiwan for the strategic importance and interests of the United States.
