US envoy for Japan Rahm Emanuel takes the spotlight with snarky China tweets

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Emanuel, 63, was known as an efficient executor and went by the nickname” Rahmbo” while working as a White House chief of staff for former President Barack Obama and as Bill Clinton’s assistant.

He ran for governor of Chicago in 2010 with success, but he decided not to run again in 2019 due to argument over his decision to withhold video of the shooting of a Black teen named Laquan McDonald.

The aggressive Democrat is renowned for his use of vivid speech that occasionally contains profanity. He had a nameplate on his desk that read,” The Undersecretary for Go F ** k Yourself ,” when he first started working at the Obama White House. It was given to him by his brothers.

According to a senior Chinese official, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government in Japan, which is keen to strengthen ties with Washington, views his long-standing West Wing connections as an advantage.

According to Yun Sun, director of the China Program at the Stimson Center, Emanuel has a reputation as an anti-China adviser within China. Beijing also believes that his role as ambassador to Japan should never allow him to influence the strained relationships between the US and China in recent years.

Emanuel has maintained close relationships with Biden, hosting him in private at the president’s residence in Tokyo, and is well-connected with members of his inner loop— a rare direct range for an adviser.

All of that suggests that it is unlikely that the management will control its ambassador to Japan.

An management official stated that he” has built up a very close relation with the Japanese to expand the empire and US objectives and is expressing his point of view.”