How Does Alex Wong, Trump’s Incoming National Security Deputy, View China?

The former State Department official said the CCP has based its legitimacy and survival on abusing the liberal international order.

(L–R) U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs Alex Wong, aide Lisa Kenna, and NSC Korea director Allison Hooker walk back into the Park Hwa Guest House after attending a meeting with Kim Yong Chol, a North Korean senior ruling party official and former intelligence chief, in Pyongyang, North Korea, on July 6, 2018. Andrew Harnik/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

Alex Wong, a senior official under the first Trump administration, has been appointed by President-elect Donald Trump as his principal deputy national security adviser.

A lawyer by training, Wong had served as Trump’s deputy special representative for North Korea. He helped negotiate the 2018 summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.