China Esquire

I was about to stop posting about American politics, but then Stan Abrams recent post alerted me to this post at Thomas Crampton entitled “Obama McCain advisors for China and Asia. Know them?”  So I couldn’t resist at least posting this information because it seems that the U.S. presidential election is on the minds of those of here in America.  Even my Chinese friends have been talking about U.S. politics.

The post at Thomas Crampton names the John McCain Asia team as:

Randy Scheunemann as chief of foreign and national security policy is the point man for liaison with former secretaries of state George Shultz and Henry Kissinger.

Former Deputy Secretary of State Rich Armitage enjoys a strong, long-standing personal relationship with McCain and should be listed as a “general guru” with an obvious personal interest in Asia, especially the US-Japan alliance.

Day to day campaign work is done by former Bush Administration defense, NSC and foreign policy officials Peter Rodman, Rick Williamson, Mike Green, the former NSC Senior Director for Asia, now at CSIS, with Dan Blumenthal, former DOD, now at AEI, Armitage International’s Randy Schriver, and McCain personal staffer Rich Fontaine.

And Team Barack Obama is:

Directly in charge of the Asia team is Amb. Jeff Bader, ex-State, NSC, USTR, also in charge of China, and administering the team via Mona Sutphen, of Stonebridge International, directly to the Campaign via Denis McDonough, a former Sen. Daschle expert on energy, the environment and trade.

China is run directly by Bader, with assistance from Richard Bush, ex-AIT now Brookings; Ken Lieberthal, former NSC; Mike Lampton, SAIS; Evan Medeiros, back at RAND again; Bob Kapp, former president of the US-China Business Council; Kevin Nealer, The Scowcroft Group; Bob Suettinger, former NSC and CIA now consultant.

Sounds interesting, though I can’t imagine most Americans caring that much about the team members themselves…

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