China News Agency, Washington, October 18 (Reporter Sha Hanting) The family of Colin Powell, the first African-American Secretary of State of the United States, posted on social media on the 18th local time that Powell died that morning due to complications from the new crown at the age of 84.
Powell’s family said that Powell had previously completed the new crown vaccination.
Before his death, he was treated at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland, near the capital Washington.
According to US media reports, Powell's long-term assistant Peggy Cifrino said that Powell has been receiving leukemia treatment for the past few years.
Powell was born in New York in April 1937 to Jamaican immigrants.
He is the first African-American assistant to the president for national security affairs, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State in the history of the United States.
He served as former President Reagan’s National Security Affairs Assistant from November 1987 to January 1989; served as Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Bush Administration from October 1989 to September 1993; from January 2001 to January 2005 Yue served as Secretary of State in the Bush administration.
During his tenure as Secretary of State, Powell advocated launching a war in Iraq.
In February 2003, he delivered a speech at a UN Security Council meeting, claiming that Iraq possesses "weapons of mass destruction."
The United States subsequently invaded Iraq.
Two years after the Iraq war, a U.S. government report showed that the intelligence agency was "completely wrong" in assessing whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
Powell said in an interview with the media many years later that his speech at the United Nations meeting was a "permanent stain in life."
The decision to start the Iraq war was based on inaccurate intelligence information, which he expressed regret.
Powell spent most of his career as a senior official in the Republican government, but after fading out of politics, he turned to support the Democratic Party.
In 2008, he publicly supported Obama's presidential campaign.
In the subsequent presidential elections, they also voted for the Democratic candidate.
After the congressional riots on January 6 this year, Powell condemned the then President Trump and said that he was no longer a Republican.
CNN commented that, as a senior official in the national security field of the Republican government, Powell helped the United States shape its foreign policy in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
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