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Some U.S. Diplomats Stage Quiet Revolt Amid Tensions With Trump
WASHINGTON
— As President Trump strains alliances and relationships around the
world, some of the nation’s top career diplomats are breaking publicly
with him, in what amounts to a quiet revolt by a cadre of public
servants known for their professional discretion.
On
Monday, the chargé d’affaires at the American Embassy in Beijing, David
H. Rank, announced his resignation after telling his staff he could not
defend the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord.
A day earlier, the acting ambassador to Britain, Lewis A. Lukens, tweeted his support
of London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, in the wake of a deadly terrorist attack
there. On Sunday morning, President Trump had picked a fight with the
mayor on Twitter.
Last
month, the ambassador to Qatar, Dana Shell Smith, reacted to Mr.
Trump’s dismissal of the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, by tweeting,
“Increasingly difficult to wake up overseas to news from home, knowing I
will spend today explaining our democracy and institutions.”
The
State Department has been a hotbed of resistance to the Trump
administration’s policies from the start. About 1,000 staff members
signed a cable protesting the temporary ban on visas for visitors from
seven predominantly Muslim countries the administration tried to impose
in January. There has been a small exodus of senior diplomats, which,
combined with the slow pace of appointments, has left the State
Department’s headquarters noticeably depleted.
But
the tensions between the White House and the diplomatic corps are now
flaring up more publicly, and at a more senior level. Mr. Lukens, Mr.
Rank, and Ms. Smith have all spent decades in the Foreign Service,
rising to posts at or close to the ambassadorial level.
“It’s
an extraordinarily unusual situation for the Foreign Service,” said R.
Nicholas Burns, who served as undersecretary of state for political
affairs in the George W. Bush administration, traditionally the
top-ranking position for career diplomats. “They pride themselves on
being nonpartisan. You serve each president 150 percent.”
Mr.
Burns said the conflicts were more difficult for diplomats at the
senior level because their jobs require them to represent or issue
statements on behalf of the United States government, sometimes with
little guidance from the State Department.
In
Mr. Rank’s case, several friends said, he had been directed to present
the White House’s rationale for withdrawing from the Paris climate
accord to the Chinese government. He told colleagues at a town-hall
meeting at the embassy that he could not defend the policy.
Friends
said Mr. Rank, who became chargé d’affaires in Beijing in January, was
deeply frustrated by the general direction of American policy toward
China, but particularly about climate change. He was scheduled to serve
until the arrival of Terry Branstad, the former governor of Iowa, who
was confirmed as Mr. Trump’s ambassador to China in May.
The
climate agreement struck between the Obama administration and the
Chinese government in 2014 laid the groundwork for the global agreement
signed in Paris. China’s official media has been scorching in its
criticism of Mr. Trump’s decision to withdraw from it.
Mr. Rank did not reply to an email seeking comment. Friends said he was on his way back to the United States.
A
State Department official, speaking on background because he was not
authorized to discuss personnel matters, characterized Mr. Rank’s
resignation as a “personal decision.” He declined to say whether it
involved climate policy.
A
27-year veteran of the Foreign Service and fluent speaker of Mandarin,
Mr. Rank also served in Taiwan, Greece and Mauritius. In recent years,
he worked extensively on Afghanistan, serving as the Afghan desk
director in Washington and political counselor in Kabul.
“He
was a complete pro, extremely well-regarded,” said Daniel F. Feldman, a
former special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. “In all his
years working for me, I never even knew his politics; exactly what
you’d hope for from a career Foreign Service officer.”
In
Mr. Lukens’ case, the flap was less about principle than a case of
mixed signals with the White House. The statement he put out on Sunday,
in the wake of the deadly attack on Saturday night, was the kind of
statement issued routinely by embassies all over the world.
Mr.
Lukens, 53, said in an email that he did not obtain clearance from the
State Department for the tweets he posted on Sunday on the embassy’s
Twitter account because it was standard practice to express support and
condolences to a host country after a terrorist attack.
“I commend the strong leadership of the @MayorofLondon as he leads the city forward after this heinous attack,” Mr. Lukens wrote,
adding praise in another post for the “extraordinary” response of the
emergency services, law enforcement, and London officials.
Earlier that day, Mr. Trump tweeted,
“At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London
says there is ‘no reason to be alarmed!’” His post misrepresented Mr.
Khan, who had told Londoners not to be alarmed by the heavy police
presence on the streets after the attack.
On Monday, the president continued his attack
against Mr. Khan, the city’s first Muslim mayor, labeling his
explanation of his remark about the public not being alarmed as a
“pathetic excuse” and accusing the news media of “working hard to sell
it.”
Ambassador
Smith, who continues to serve in Qatar, could not be reached for
comment. Over the weekend, she retweeted a post supporting Mr. Khan from
the mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti.
The
divergence between Mr. Lukens and the president drew immediate
attention on social media, with some praising the envoy for his grace
and humanity and others calling for his head.
Several
noted that Mr. Lukens worked for Hillary Clinton when she was secretary
of state and played a role in setting up the communications system she
used, which allowed her to send and receive email on a private server
using a personal email address.
Mr.
Lukens, whose father was ambassador to the Republic of Congo, became a
familiar figure to the diplomatic press corps as the coordinator of Mrs.
Clinton’s overseas trips. He is an affable, low-key diplomat who
colleagues said was unlikely to go rogue.
A
28-year veteran of the Foreign Service, Mr. Lukens was named ambassador
to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau by President Barack Obama, after tours in
Canada, Ivory Coast and China. He became the acting ambassador in London
in January after the White House recalled Mr. Obama’s envoy, Matthew
Barzun.
Mr.
Burns said, “There’s no question he used his best judgment yesterday.”
But the State Department official said only that Mr. Lukens’ tweets
“speak for themselves.”
