The international expert community is now busy discussing United States Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman Jr. For years, he has been known as the adversary of Russia’s policies towards Georgia and Ukraine. Politico was the first media source to write about the assignment of Jon Huntsman. Indeed, he seems to have accepted Donald Trump’s offer to represent the USA in Russia.
We know that during his election campaign, Donald Trump promised to improve relations with Russia. It turns out that Jon Huntsman has the opposite standpoint on the matter. He criticized the Kremlin’s policy and the very idea of reloading the bilateral relations between Russia and the United States.
The next step is to file a written confirmation to Trump’s administration. Further on, the Senate will need to approve his candidacy and also receive Moscow’s approval as well. Politico calls Huntsman a moderate realist. He has spent many years abroad as an ambassador, which is why he a practical expert in foreign policy. He started his political career in 1982 as an assistant to a Republican senator. Then he was a member of Ronald Reagan’s administration. In 1992 he became the U.S. Ambassador to Singapore. Back then, he was just 32 years old. He also served as the U.S. Ambassador to China during Obama’s administration.
It’s obvious that his career has been successful all that time, where under Republican or Democrat administration. Huntsman was involved in a scandal where he was accused of trying to start a revolution in China. After coming back from China, he ran for president as a Democrat even though he used to work for a Republican administration.
All that time he has been criticizing any attempts to reload the relations with today’s Russia since he believes that this should be done based on such virtues as democracy and the supremacy of law.
