Its mission is to strengthen the common front between the two countries on the background of tensions with China in the Indo-Pacific.
Le Monde with AFP
Caroline Kennedy, last child still alive from the murdered president John F. Kennedy, will be named Ambassador of the United States in Australia, announced the White House in a statement Wednesday. This former American ambassador in Japan under the chairmanship of Barack Obama still has to see his appointment confirmed by the Senate.
For a long time, the announcement comes nearly a year after the start of Joe Biden’s presidency, while Senators Republicans delay most confirmations to key diplomatic posts. In Canberra, it will have the task of strengthening the common front between the United States and Australia on the background of tensions with China in the Indo-Pacific.
The announcement in September of the purchase by the Australia of American nuclear-propulsion submarines had caused Beijing, which had seen an “extremely irresponsible” decision.
Joe Biden’s Special Envoy for the Indo-Pacific Region, Kurt Campbell, had accused at the beginning of December China to “put Australia on his knees” with a sanctions dam, according to him, to an “economic war”.
A late entry in politics
64 years old, Caroline Kennedy is the only child still alive from JFK and Jackie Kennedy. In 1999, his brother John Kennedy Junior lost her life during the crash at the little plane he piloted. A tragic death, like so many members of the clan, to the point of speaking of Kennedy’s curse.
Caroline Kennedy appears in a famous remained photo where, still child, she had hid under her father’s office at the white house. She has resisted for several decades to calls within the Democratic Party who wanted to be engaged in politics, preferring a life turned to writing, especially on civic freedoms, and a job at the very renowned Metropolitan Museum in New York.
Then Caroline Kennedy returned to the front of the stage during the 2008 presidential campaign, as fervent support from the candidate Barack Obama, describing the latter as an inspiring person who reminded him of his father.
She had often went to the north-east of Japan, devastated by the earthquake and the Tsunami of March 2011, before commissioning between 2013 and 2017. After her position in Tokyo, Caroline Kennedy had joined The Board’s Board of Aerospace Boeing.