Blinken Carries Biden’s Confidence Into Role as Top U.S. Envoy
- Choice for secretary of state has worked with Biden for years
- Trump famously undercut Tillerson, then held North Korea talks
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Antony Blinken, tapped by President-elect Joe Biden to serve as America’s 71st secretary of state, would carry the most valuable asset a diplomat can have when meeting other world leaders: the confidence of the U.S. president.
Biden and Blinken’s history of working together since the early 2000s means America’s allies and rivals will know that the person they are dealing with speaks for the president. That’s not always the case.