20131211 Michael Green 「代宣布」 AIT 人事

【Comment】

It was unusual that Michael Jonathan Green, who served as a special assistant to the George W. Bush for national security affairs and senior director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council (NSC), pronounced the AIT personnel reshuffle: the retirement of Barbara J. Schrage and the succession of Joseph R. Donovan.

Despite his brilliant diplomatic experiences in Asia, Joseph Donovan is rather a strategic scholar associated with the military.  He is now a diplomatic adviser to General Martin Dempsey, the Chairperson of US Joint Chiefs of Staff, on the full range diplomatic and foreign policy issues.

Seeing the situations now in East Asia, AIT does need a Managing Director with military and strategic background.  And above all, AIT needs to monitor the orientation and the moves of Chinese Taipei. 

Donovan’s wife is a Taiwanese.    revised on 20131214

由（共和黨）國家安全顧問亞洲主任的 Michael Jonathan Green 來「宣布」 AIT執行董事 (the Managing Director)的人事——施藍旗 (Barbara J. Schrage) 退休與唐若文 (Joseph R. Donovan) 的接任。非常不尋常！

與其說唐若外交人員，不如注意其類似 Richard Armitage 之軍方人員兼戰略學者身分，與其服務 JCS General Martin Dempsey的經歷。這一調動，彰顯 AIT 要開始注意中華台北的軍事重要性與細微動向。

喔，他是台灣女婿，妻子吳美綢。

唐若文 將接任AIT執行理事○AIT（2013.12.12）http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2013/new/dec/13/today-p2-3.htm

〔駐美特派員曹郁芬／華府十一日報導〕美國在台協會執行理事施藍旗（Barbara Schrage）即將退休，遺缺將由前美軍參謀長聯席會議主席的外交政策顧問唐若文（Joseph Donovan）在元月上旬接任。

美國戰略暨國際研究中心今天在國會山莊發表由學者葛萊儀撰寫的報告，探討台灣尋求更大國際參與空間的可能性。主持會議的前白宮國安會亞太資深主任葛林宣布在場的施藍旗幾週內要退休，並推崇施藍旗對美台關係貢獻極大，坐在施藍旗右側的唐若文將接任。兩人面對媒體時都沒有否認。

唐若文受訪時表示，他一共在台灣待了八年，兩年學習語文，另外六年在高雄和台北的美國在台協會都工作過。美台之間有非常重要的非官方關係，他希望未來能強化，但他說，施藍旗還沒卸任，他不便對未來的工作期待發表太多評論。

唐若文自二○一二年元月起，擔任美軍參謀長聯席會議主席的外交政策顧問。他於二○○八年至二○○九年間擔任美國駐香港及澳門總領事；二○○五年出任美國駐日本大使館公使；二○○三年至二○○五年間，擔任美國國務院東亞局的中國、蒙古事務處處長。

唐若文曾擔任美國在台協會台北辦事處的政治組組長，以及美國在台協會高雄分處處長，並曾出使過中國、日本、韓國與卡達等地，是位經歷豐富而完整的外交官。

Joseph R. Donovan Jr.○JCS
Foreign Policy Advisor to the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Joseph R. Donovan Jr. became the Foreign Policy Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in January 2012, following five months as an Associate Professor at the National War College, National Defense University in Washington, DC.  He is responsible for supporting the Chairman on the full range diplomatic and foreign policy issues.   

Previously, Mr. Donovan served for two years as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs with primary responsibilities for U.S. relations with Japan and Korea, as well as the East Asian and Pacific Bureau’s Executive Office.  As Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, he was instrumental in coordinating the State Department’s response to the 2011 Tsunami and nuclear crisis in Japan and negotiating the May 28, 2010 U.S.-Japan Joint Statement on Okinawa.  

A career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister Counselor, Mr. Donovan has served as the United States Consul General in Hong Kong and Macau (2008-2009) and the Deputy Chief of Mission at the United States Embassy in Tokyo (2005-2008).  From 2003-2005 he was the Director of the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs at the State Department.  His other Foreign Service assignments include: Acting Deputy Director and Chief of the Political Section at the American Institute in Taiwan, Deputy Political Counselor and Chief of the Political-Military Affairs Unit at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo; Deputy Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing; and Branch Chief of the American Institute in Taiwan’s Kaohsiung Office.  Mr. Donovan served earlier at the U.S. Embassies in Seoul, Republic of Korea and Doha, Qatar.  He is the recipient of three individual State Department Superior Honor Awards.  

Mr. Donovan has a masters degree with distinction in National Security Affairs from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and a bachelors degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.  Following his graduation from Georgetown, he spent two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Republic of Korea.  Mr. Donovan was born and raised in Goshen, New York.  He and his spouse Mei Chou have two sons, James and Matthew.

http://www.jcs.mil/biography.aspx?ID=152