Thomas Alfred Shannon Jr. is an American diplomat who served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2016 to 2018. In early 2017,Shannon served as acting United States Secretary of State until President Donald Trump's nominee,Rex Tillerson,was confirmed. He was also acting Deputy Secretary of State of the United States until the Senate confirmed President Trump's nominee,John J. Sullivan.
The relations between Estonia and the United States have been constant and strong since Estonia regained its independence in 1991. The United States and Estonia are allies and partners.
Sergey Ivanovich Kislyak is a Russian senior diplomat and politician. Since September 2017,he has represented Mordovia in the Federation Council,the upper chamber of the Russian legislature. Previously he served as the Ambassador of Russia to the United States from 2008 to 2017. From 2003 to 2008,he was the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs,and from 1998 to 2003,he served as the Ambassador of Russia to Belgium and Russia's Head of Mission to NATO.
Jackson Diehl is a newspaper editor and reporter. He was the deputy editorial page editor of The Washington Post from February 2001 to August 2021. He was part of the Washington Post team that won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. He wrote many of the paper's editorials on foreign affairs,helped to oversee the editorial and op-ed pages and authored a regular column. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and can speak Spanish and Polish.
James Warlick is a US diplomat,former United States Ambassador to Bulgaria.
The Embassy of the United States in Beijing is the diplomatic mission of the United States in China. It serves as the administrative office of the United States Ambassador to China. The embassy complex is in Chaoyang District,Beijing.
The Embassy of the United States in Tallinn,Estonia,is located at the chancery building on Kentmanni Street. This building housed the U.S. legation to Estonia from April 1,1930 until September 5,1940. The U.S. Mission to Estonia resumed operations in the same building on February 6,1992.
John D. Feeley is an American diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Panama from 2015 until his resignation took effect on March 9,2018.
Donald John Wright is an American physician,government official,and diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Tanzania between 2020 and 2023.
The United States officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital city of Israel on December 6,2017. American president Donald Trump,who signed the presidential proclamation,also ordered the relocation of the American diplomatic mission to Israel,formerly located in Tel Aviv. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the U.S. recognition and praised the announcement by the Trump administration. On December 8,U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson clarified that Trump's statement "did not indicate any final status for Jerusalem" and "was very clear that the final status,including the borders,would be left to the two parties to negotiate and decide" in reference to the move's impact on the Israeli–Palestinian peace process.
The following is a timeline of the presidency of Donald Trump during the first quarter of 2018,from January 1 to March 31,2018. To navigate between quarters,see timeline of the Donald Trump presidency.
James Dinneen Nealon Jr. is an American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Honduras from 2014 to 2017. After his service as ambassador,he worked in the Department of Homeland Security from 2017 to 2018.
George P. Kent is an American diplomat. He is ambassador to Estonia since February 21,2023. George Kent served as deputy assistant secretary of state for the European and Eurasian Affairs from 2018 to 2021. As a United States Foreign Service officer,his early service has included assignments in the U.S. diplomatic missions to Poland,Thailand and Uzbekistan. In 2004,he was assigned to serve as deputy political counselor in Kyiv,Ukraine,and was deputy chief of mission in Kyiv from 2015 to 2018.
David Holmes is an American diplomat who served as a counselor for political affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine circa 2019-2020. He is at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service as Senior State Department Fellow,as of 2022.
This is a timeline of major events in the second half of 2017 related to the investigations into the many suspicious links between Trump associates and Russian officials and spies relating to the Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. It follows the timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections before and after July 2016 up until election day November 8,the post-election transition,and the first half of 2017. The investigations continued in the first and second halves of 2018,the first and second halves of 2019,2020,and 2021.
Robert Stuart Gilchrist is an American diplomat who has served as the assistant secretary of state for democracy,human rights,and labor since September 2023. He served as the United States ambassador to Lithuania from February 2020 to August 2023. He is a career Foreign Service Officer with the rank of minister counselor. He was appointed by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the United States Senate on December 20,2019. Gilchrist was the fifth US ambassador from the LGBT community nominated to serve by the Trump administration.
Richard Townsend Davies was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Poland from 1973 to 1978.
Harold Hilgard Tittmann,Jr. was an American diplomat and expert on Fascist Italy who served as Franklin D. Roosevelt's representative to the Vatican City during World War II.
