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Joe Biden nominates Mark Gitenstein for EU ambassador post
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US President Joe Biden has released a new lineup of nominations, including those for ambassadorial posts. In the latest lineup, Biden has nominated a former ambassador to Romania to serve as the US Ambassador to the European Union.
In the latest slate of nominations, Biden tapped Mark Gitenstein, who served as the US Ambassador to Romania from 2009 to 2012, to be the US Ambassador to the EU. The position is currently being held by Charge d’Affaires Kelly Adams-Smith, who replaced Mark Libby. The last US ambassador to the EU was Gordon Sondland, appointed by Biden’s predecessor Donald Trump.
Joe Biden nominates former ambassador to Romania Mark Gitenstein as new EU envoy
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For a long time now, Western diplomats in the EU and beyond have kept tabs on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), an ambitious infrastructure project that harks back to the ancient Silk Road, with a vast collection of development and investment initiatives that stretch from East Asia to Europe and beyond.
Launched in 2013 by President Xi Jinping, it significantly expanded China’s economic and political influence, but in Europe it has created uneasiness through debt traps (Montenegro most recently) and massive investment in critical infrastructure worldwide.
Experts see the BRI as one of the main pillars of bolder Chinese statecraft under Xi, a pushback against the US’ ‘pivot to Asia’ and a recipe for a looming Chinese economic middle-income trap.