Kerry was a river patrol boat commander during Vietnam War
- By Ranger, Thai Intel’s political journalist
Just very briefly, however, Thailand‘s opposition leader, Abhisit, just sent USA Senator John Kerry a letter trashing Thaksin, relating to the USA granting Thaksin, in what the local Thai press report as a 10 years visa to enter the USA.
Thaksin, just wrapped-up his USA trip, with a meeting with Henry Kissinger, but having to confront a crowd of anti-Thaksin protesters, like the Yellow Shirts, at several meeting of supporters that he went. Back in Thailand, there were also protest at the USA Embassy in Thailand, by like the Multi-Color Shirts.
- Of note, is that Thailand’s Yellow Shirts and Multi-Color shirts, while supporting and linking to Abhisit to a certain extent, is widely accepted as Neo-Fascist and Fanatics groups.
Kerry is the USA Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairperson, with a long track record in Southeast Asia affairs, serving in the Vietnam War and being an anti-Vietnam War activist.
There is little in the Wikipedia on Kerry’s ASEAN policy and Google search also has little on Kerry’s Asia policy.
However, there is the following:
Oct 17, 2012 · 4:30 p.m.– 6:00 p.m. · Robertson Hall, Bowl 16
China faces a number of daunting impediments to its continuing growth and development. Frank Jannuzi, Deputy Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, will discuss the challenges posed by dilemmas posed by the six dragons of Energy, Environment, Demographics, Income Inequality, Corruption, and Ethnic Unrest.
Frank Jannuzi serves as Deputy Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, and head of the Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Jannuzi is an international affairs policy and political expert who most recently served Chairman John Kerry as Policy Director for East Asian and Pacific Affairs for the Democratic staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
His Senate service included work on human rights legislation (JADE Act on Burma, North Korea Human Rights Act, Tibet Policy Act) as well as field investigations into human rights and security conditions in numerous East Asian hotspots, including China (especially Tibet), Burma, Cambodia, Southern Thailand, Vietnam, Mindanao, and North Korea.
Prior to joining the staff of the SFRC, Mr. Jannuzi worked as the East Asia regional political-military analyst for the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), U.S. Department of State. His portfolio at INR included China’s defense modernization, the Korean Peninsula, insurgencies and civil wars in Southeast Asia, and territorial disputes in the South China Sea and Kuril Islands.
In 1990, he worked as a refugee officer on the Thai-Cambodia border, and returned as an electoral officer for Cambodia’s UN-run elections in May, 1993. Mr. Jannuzi was the founding editor-in-chief of Peacekeeping Perspectives, the State Department’s classified journal on multilateral peacekeeping and humanitarian operations.
Mr. Jannuzi holds a BA in history from Yale University and a MPP with a concentration in international affairs and security from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. In 2006, he conducted an International Affairs Fellowship in Japan, sponsored by Hitachi, Ltd., at the Institute for International Policy Studies and Keio University.
He lives in Baltimore with his wife, Dr. Jennifer Martin, and their daughters Zoe and Camille. This talk is sponsored by the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program of the Woodrow Wilson School whose mission is to encourage research on China’s foreign relations and China within the international relations context.
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