Cui Tiankai

Cui Tiankai  link C-SPAN (Diplomat)
File:Cui Tiankai.jpg
Born	October 1952 Shanghai, China
Nationality	Chinese
Alma mater	East China Normal University, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
Party	Communist Party of China
Attended the 2017 Bilderberg as Chinese Ambassador to the United States

Cui Tiankai is a Chinese diplomat and only Chinese guest at the 2017 Bilderberg, where several topics were relevant, including "China" relations, (North Korean) "nuclear proliferation", or "Can globalisation be slowed down?".

Education

In 1952, Cui was born in Shanghai, China. He is a native of Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China.

Cui went to Shanghai Foreign Language School and graduated from the School of Foreign Languages of East China Normal University. Following his graduation from East China Normal University, Cui studied interpretation at the Beijing Foreign Studies University.

Career

Following his studies in Beijing, Cui traveled with a Chinese delegation to the United Nations to work as an interpreter in the General Assembly. After working in the UN for five years, Cui returned to academia to pursue a postgraduate degree from Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C.

After graduating from Johns Hopkins University, Cui joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, first as a deputy director of the Department of International Organizations and Conferences, and then as spokesman for the Information Department. In 1997, Cui was appointed Minister Counselor to the United Nations, a position he held until 1999. Cui continued to work with the Ministry throughout the next decade and held notable positions such as Director General of the Department of Asian Affairs, assistant minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Ambassador to Japan.

In 2013, Cui was selected by the 12th Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, then appointed by President Xi Jinping as the Ambassador to the United States, pursuant to the National People's Congress decision. On 22 June 2021, after eight years, he announced that he would leave the position.

Positions

Tiankai has several times said his government looks forward to "more robust, stable and fruitful" ties with Washington. In January 2017 he said "I hope both sides will work together for…mutual respect and cooperation for win-win Sino-US relations. I also hope all people can work for it constructively."

Regarding North Korea he said in June 2017 that "We should not make it [US-China dialogue] a platform where one side pushes a long list of demands on the other. It has to be a two-way street." He said that China was "obviously important" in exerting pressure on North Korea, “but there is more the US should do."" Beijing has urged Washington to take steps towards reviving negotiations with Pyongyang.

Regardin trade negotiation, in 2021 he said that "(i)f we review the process of trade talks between us over the last year or so, it is quite clear (that the) US, more than once, (not China) changed its mind overnight, and broke the tentative deal already reached."

In 2022, Cui stated that "China and the USA need to recapture the spirit of cooperation from WWII and join hands to confront our common enemies in the new era."

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