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Foreign minister candidate Antony Blinken at an anti-terrorism meeting in France in 2015
Photo: Jens Büttner / dpa
The strangest thing known about Antony Blinken has nothing to do with his career as a diplomat.
Under the name of his band "Ablinken" there are two songs he sings on Spotify.
Neither of them are bang, but you wouldn't leave a bar playing them, as music critic Caitlin White wrote.
Otherwise, the man who, according to Joe Biden's will, is to become the US Secretary of State in the future is the complete opposite of the current members of the US government: he is reserved, knowledgeable and experienced.
He has had a classic career in the foreign service.
He has a profile with which he would have no chance with Donald Trump.
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With Blinken's nomination, the future president shows that he is serious about the promise to bring the USA back on a reliable course after the disruptive Trump years.
Blinken is a man of the foreign policy establishment who relies on alliances and believes in the role of the USA as an international regulatory power.
With him, Biden is picking up where Barack Obama left off four years ago.
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