Yang Jiechi

Yang Jiechi (Chinese杨洁篪, Pinyin Yang Jiechi, born May 1, 1950 in Shanghai) is a politician, diplomat and was Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China.

Life

In the early 1970s he studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 1975, he began his career in the Chinese Foreign Ministry. Yang is one of the very small group of Chinese diplomats, who were sent abroad by the government even during the years of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976 ). Overall, he was thirteen years at his country's embassy in Washington, DC - most recently from 2001 to 2005 as ambassador to the United States.

He is an expert in the United States and as a friend of the family of former U.S. President Bush, since he sen as a translator for George Bush in the 1970s. worked; Bush was head of the U.S. Liaison Office in China at that time. From him then Yang received the nickname " Tiger".

1995 Yang was first assistant foreign minister from 1998 to 2001, he was - as well as after his return from the United States from 2005 - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. His duties consisted in the care of relations with North and South America as well as Oceania, but mainly to the Chinese special regions of Hong Kong and Macau as well as in maintaining contacts with Taiwan. On 27 April 2007 he was appointed as successor of Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing his home after he had been personally chosen by the party leader and President of the People's Republic of China Hu Jintao to conduct its diplomacy of " peaceful rise ". On March 16, 2013, he resigned from this post and was State for Foreign policy issues.

Yang is alternate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.