国际英语资讯:Spotlight: Trumps appointment of several billionaires to cabinet raises questions_时事

国际英语资讯:Spotlight: Trumps appointment of several billionaires to cabinet raises questions

"I certainly don't want to discount the importance of business experience as part of a cabinet secretary's skill set, and many successful business leaders have been able to make significant reforms and have an outsized impact on government because of their business experience," Mahaffee said.

"Still it is worth noting how these cabinet members will be able to adapt to the slower pace and peculiarities of government, where much more has to be done through consensus and proper procedure rather than the pace they are used to as a business executive," Mahaffee said.

"With regards to Tillerson specifically, I think there is a mindset among the Trump team and Trump supporters that is important to note...In their mindset, traditional diplomats have seemed quite adept at dealing with things like UN General Assemblies, conferences in Paris, and the Geneva cocktail party circuit. However, in the worldview of Trump and his team, global policy is not being driven by these traditional institutions, but by the actions of leaders like (Russian President Vladimir) Putin," he said.

"It is just one part of a greater emphasis by the Trump team on a world where it'll be less about traditional diplomacy and more the transactional relationship between great powers and regional powers," he said.

Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Darrell West told Xinhua the problem for Trump is not billionaires in his cabinet but the policies they are proposing.