Biden believes young officials can help US to subdue China By Li Yan | China Daily | Updated: 2021-04-28 07:21 [Photo/Xinhua] The personnel policy of the Joe Biden administration is different from that of the previous administration in that it has been recruiting young "political elites" with special expertise. For example, several China-related positions in the administration are held by officials born in the 1980s, including Laura Rosenberger, senior director for China at the National Security Council, Rush Doshi and Julian Gewirtz, directors for China at the NSC, and Mira Rapp-Hooper, senior adviser on China in Policy Planning at the State Department. Also among the "political elites" is Ely Ratner, special assistant to the US secretary of defense, who was born in the late 1970s.