{"id":5776,"date":"2020-01-05T03:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=5776"},"modified":"2020-01-05T03:20:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T16:20:59","slug":"us-embassy-denies-report-that-chang-will-be-next-ambassador-to-ph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=5776","title":{"rendered":"US Embassy denies report  that Chang will be next ambassador to PH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:12px\"> <strong><em>As seen on the August 2019 issue of The Philippine Sentinel<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">It was initially reported\nthat <strong>Mina Chang <\/strong>would succeed outgoing US Ambassador to the Philippines\nSung Kim. There were reports to media that the White House made the\nannouncement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">Ms. Mina Chang is currently\nthe US State Department deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of Conflict\nand Stabilization Operations. She has extensive experience in conflict areas\nsuch as Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Nigeria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">Chang would have been the\nsecond female US ambassador to the Philippines after former counsellor of the\nState Department Kristie Kenney, who served as ambassador to Manila from 2006\nto 2009. Chang served as chief executive officer of an international\nnon-government organization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">\u201cApplying insights gleaned\nfrom a broad range of civilian and military data sets, data analytics, social\nscience and geo-spatial intelligence capabilities to identify and assist\nvulnerable communities, the organization worked to isolate root drivers of\ninstability and direct development initiatives to address critical\nvulnerabilities that non-state actors exploit to further their agenda,\u201d the\nState Department described Chang\u2019s NGO in its website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">The State Department added\nthat Chang has been an advocate for proactive stabilization as a strategic tool\nof foreign engagement and an investment in a stronger America abroad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">She is an alumna of the Harvard Business School and a graduate of the US Army War College National Security Seminar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">  <strong>(SOURCE: Philippine Star)<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As seen on the August 2019 issue of The Philippine Sentinel It was initially reported that Mina Chang would succeed outgoing US Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim. There were reports to media that the White House made the announcement. Ms. Mina Chang is currently the US State Department deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5789,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776\/revisions\/5789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}