U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice chats with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, center, and U.S. Rice will be channeling Kissinger when she travels with President Obama this weekend for the Group of 20 summit in Hangzhou. Rice has been nearly invisible as national security adviser, compared with some of her flamboyant predecessors. She has made three solo trips there as national security adviser and has seen President Xi Jinping privately each time. I think that’s frankly been done very well by Susan,” said Tom Donilon, her predecessor as national security adviser and one of the architects of the 2011 “pivot” to Asia that Rice inherited.

Source: Washington Post September 01, 2016 23:26 UTC