駐日米大使に前シカゴ市長指名へ　バイデン政権「同盟強化」目指す―報道

　【ワシントン時事】英紙フィナンシャル・タイムズ（電子版）は１１日、バイデン米大統領が空席の続く駐日大使にラーム・エマニュエル前シカゴ市長（６１）を指名すると報じた。同紙はエマニュエル氏の大使起用で、バイデン政権が「中国が影響力を強める中、日米同盟を強化する」考えだと伝えている。
　エマニュエル氏は駐中国大使の候補としても浮上していた。同紙が関係者の証言に基づき報じたところでは、駐中国大使にはニコラス・バーンズ元国務次官（政治担当）が起用される見通し。（2021/05/11-16:13）

U.S. President Joe Biden has chosen former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to be U.S. ambassador to Japan, the Financial Times reported in its online edition on Tuesday.
   The appointment "will boost Washington's alliance with Tokyo as China's influence grows," the British newspaper said.
   Emanuel, 61, has also been floated as a potential pick for the United States' ambassador to China. According to the paper, the post is likely to go to Nicholas Burns, a former undersecretary of state for political affairs.
   Emanuel, a Jewish American born in Chicago, became a Democratic member of the House of Representatives and the White House chief of staff under the administration of President Barack Obama before serving as Chicago mayor for two terms from 2011 to 2019.
   After William Hagerty left the post in Tokyo in 2019, then President Donald Trump announced that the role of ambassador to Japan would be taken up by Kenneth Weinstein, president of the conservative think tank Hudson Institute. But the appointment was scrapped after Trump lost the 2020 presidential election.