Map of Northeast Asia

Northeast Asia and Northeastern Asia refers to the northeastern subregion of Asia.

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The definition of Northeast Asia is not static, but often changes according to the context in which it is discussed.

In geopolitics, the Council on Foreign Relations defines Northeast Asia as Japan, North Korea, and South Korea.^[1] China and Russia are often included in geopolitical discussion of the region to the extent their interests and policies interact with those of Japan and the Koreas. The Sea of Japan, the Yellow Sea, and sometimes the East China Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk are included in discussions of the region.

In common usage, however, the term Northeast Asia typically includes China.^[2][3] In this form, the core countries constituting Northeast Asia are China, Japan, South Korea, and North Korea.^[4]

In Biogeography, Northeast Asia generally refers to roughly the area spanning Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Northeast China, and the Russian Far East between Lake Baikal in Central Siberia and the Pacific Ocean.

See also[link]

• EALC
• East Asia
• East Asian studies

References[link]

External links[link]

• Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies - Brookings Institution
• Kimura, Takeatsu - International Collation of Traditional and Folk Medicine - Northeast Asia - Unesco

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Winston Lord

Winston Lord, Nancy Pelosi and Richard Gere in 2009.

Winston Lord (born on (1937-08-14) August 14, 1937 (age 74)) is a United States diplomat and leader of non-governmental foreign policy organizations. He served as the president of the Council on Foreign Relations between 1977 and 1985, Ambassador to China (1985–1989) and Assistant Secretary of State (1993–1997).^{[citation needed]}

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Lord was born in New York City, New York, United States, North America.^{[citation needed]} He is the third of three sons born to Oswald Bates Lord (1903–1986) and Mary Pillsbury Lord (of the flour family, Pillsbury) (1904–1978). His older brother, Richard, died in 1935, aged three months. The oldest brother is Charles Pillsbury Lord. His father was a leader in the textile industry. His mother served for eight years as United States Delegate to the United Nations and U.S. Representative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and she was the recipient of many awards including International Rescue Committee's Freedom Award. Mary Pillsbury Lord was a survivor of the sinking of the Clyde-Mallory Line's passenger liner SS Mohawk off the New Jersey Coast in January 1935.^{[citation needed]}

After preparing at The Hotchkiss School, Lord graduated magna cum laude from Yale University in 1959 and obtained an M.A. at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1960 (first in class). Among his honors were the Pentagon's Outstanding Performance Award and the State Department's Distinguished Service Award. He has honorary doctorate degrees from Williams College, Tufts University, Dominican College^{[disambiguation needed ]}, Bryant College, and Pepperdine University. He is a member of the Yale secret society Skull and Bones.^[1][2]

Lord was a key figure in the restoration of relations between the United States and China in the early 1970s and US-China relations eversince. From 1969–73, as a member of the United States National Security Council’s planning staff, he was the special assistant to National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, accompanying him on his secret trip to Beijing in 1971. The following year, he was part of the U.S. delegation during President Richard Nixon's historic visit to China and was on President Ford's visit in 1975. Lord became the State Department's Director of Policy Planning and top policy adviser on China (1973–77), United States Ambassador to China (1985–1989) under President Reagan, and Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1993–1997) under President Clinton. Early in his career he served in the Foreign Service and the Defense Department.^{[citation needed]}

Between governmental posts^{[when?][clarification needed]} Ambassador Lord has headed and helped direct many private organizations related to international affairs. He was co-Chairman of the International Rescue Committee, Chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy and President of the Council on Foreign Relations (1977–1985). He has served on many other boards.^{[citation needed]}

Lord is married^[when?] to best selling author and human rights activist Bette Bao Lord and has two children, Elizabeth Pillsbury and Winston Bao. He spoke to the USC U.S.-China Institute in November 2010 on the current state of U.S.-China relations.^[3]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Interview with Winston Lord as part of Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, a site at the Library of Congress. Complete oral history at ADST.org

v t e United States Ambassadors to China Envoys to the Qing Empire 1843-1858 Caleb Cushing 1843-44 · Alexander Hill Everett 1845-47 · John Wesley Davis 1848-50 · Humphrey Marshall 1852-54 · Robert Milligan McLane 1853-54 · Peter Parker 1855-57 · William B. Reed 1857-58 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plentipotentiary to the Qing Empire 1858-1913 John Elliott Ward 1858-60 · Anson Burlingame 1861-67 · John Ross Browne 1868-69 · Frederick F. Low 1869-73 · Benjamin Avery 1874-75 · George Seward 1876-80 · James Burrill Angell 1880-81 · John Russell Young 1882-85 · Charles Harvey Denby 1885-98 · Edwin H. Conger 1898-05 · William Woodville Rockhill 1905-09 · William James Calhoun 1909-13 Envoy to the Republic of China 1913-1929 Paul Samuel Reinsch 1913-19 · Charles Richard Crane 1920-21 · Jacob Gould Schurman 1921-25 · John MacMurray 1925-29 Ambassador to the Republic of China 1929-1949 Nelson T. Johnson 1929-41 · Clarence E. Gauss 1941-44 · Patrick J. Hurley 1944-45 · John Leighton Stuart 1946-49 · Embassy in Taipei 1949-Pres. Chiefs of the U.S. Liaison Office in Beijing 1973-79 David K. E. Bruce 1973-74 · George H. W. Bush 1974-75 · Thomas S. Gates, Jr. 1976-77 · Leonard Woodcock 1977-79 Ambassador to the People's Republic of China 1979-Present Leonard Woodcock 1979-81 · Arthur W. Hummel, Jr. 1981-85 · Winston Lord 1985-89 · James R. Lilley 1989-91 · J. Stapleton Roy 1991-95 · Jim Sasser 1996-99 · Joseph Prueher 1999-01 · Clark T. Randt, Jr. 2001-09 · Jon Huntsman, Jr. 2009-11 · Gary Locke 2011-