Alex Nelson Wong
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Alex Nelson Wong, Deputy National Security Advisor during President Donald Trump's second term.
Alex Nelson Wong's parents immigrated to the United States from Guangdong in South China. He is married to Candice Chiu Wong.
Mini-bio
From the 2025 Washington China Forum website:[1],[2]
- Alex Nelson Wong "is the head of public affairs for Coupang, a Fortune 200 company operating across Asia, and is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute. He has served as a close advisor to corporate executives, cabinet secretaries, members of Congress and presidential nominees. He recently completed a term as chairman of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, and in the Trump administration, he served as deputy special representative for North Korea and deputy assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. He was previously the foreign policy adviser to Sen. Tom Cotton and foreign and legal policy director for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign. He began his national security career as an Iraq rule of law adviser for the State Department, and in this capacity he served in Baghdad at the height of the surge strategy. Wong practiced law at Covington and Burling and clerked for Judge Janice Rogers Brown on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Pennsylvania."
North Korea
Excerpt from Reuters in an article dated November 24, 2024 titled "Trump picks Alex Wong for deputy national security adviser":[3],[4]
- "U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Friday that he has choosing former State Department official Alex Wong to serve as deputy national security adviser.
- Wong, who served as deputy special representative for North Korea during the first Trump administration, "helped negotiate my Summit with North Korean Leader, Kim Jong Un," Trump said in a statement.
2025 Washington China Forum
Alex Nelson Wong was listed as an attendee to the 2025 Washington China Forum, "a collaborative effort between the Council on Foreign Relations’ China Strategy Initiative and the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy’s 21st Century China Center.[5],[6]
References
- ↑ https://china.ucsd.edu/policy/china-forum/participants/alex-wong.html Alex Wong (accessed March 25, 2025)
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20250325220932/https://china.ucsd.edu/policy/china-forum/participants/alex-wong.html Archive Link: Alex Wong (accessed March 25, 2025)
- ↑ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-picks-alex-wong-deputy-national-security-adviser-2024-11-23/ Trump picks Alex Wong for deputy national security adviser (accessed March 25, 2025)
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20250325220932/https://china.ucsd.edu/policy/china-forum/participants/alex-wong.html Archive Link: Trump picks Alex Wong for deputy national security adviser (accessed March 25, 2025)
- ↑ https://china.ucsd.edu/policy/china-forum/participants/index.html Forum Participants (accessed March 25, 2025)
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20241006001650/https://china.ucsd.edu/policy/china-forum/participants/index.html Archive Link: Forum Participants (accessed March 25, 2025)