Interesting Times

Chas W. Freeman, Jr.

ISBN 10: 1935982265 / ISBN 13: 9781935982265

Published by PM Press, US, 2013

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When President Richard Nixon held his meetings with Chairman Mao in Beijing in February 1972, at his side was a young U.S. diplomat serving as his principal interpreter: Chas W. Freeman, Jr. Interesting Times: China, America, and the Shifting Balance of Prestige presents Ambassador Freeman's most brilliant (and often bitingly witty) on developments in China and the U.S.-Chinese relationship, 1969-2012. Subjects include issues like Taiwan, other strategic issues, and differences over human rights, economic, and trade policies that confronted the world's two most powerful countries throughout those years.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Interesting Times
• Publisher: PM Press, US
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1935982265
• ISBN 13: 9781935982265
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 508 grams

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Synopsis

When President Richard Nixon held his meetings with Chairman Mao in Beijing in February 1972, at his side was a young US diplomat serving as his principal interpreter: Chas W. Freeman, Jr. Interesting Times: China, America, and the Shifting Balance of Prestige presents Ambassador Freeman's most brilliant (and often bitingly witty) on developments in China and the US-Chinese relationship, 1969–2012. Subjects include issues like Taiwan, other strategic issues, and differences over human rights, economic, and trade policies that confronted the world’s two most powerful countries throughout those years.

About the Author

Chas W. Freeman, Jr. spent three decades as a US diplomat, winding up his government service as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. In the course of his varied and distinguished career, he was the principal American interpreter during Nixon's visit to Beijing; played a key role in shaping relations with China as it reformed and opened up; helped negotiate the deal with the leaders of Cuba, South Africa, Angola, and the Soviet Union that ended the colonial era in Africa by terminating South African rule in Namibia and removing Cuban troops from Angola; served as ambassador to Saudi Arabia during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm; designed NATO's transformation into a Europe-wide security system; and set up military-to-military relations with China. Since his retirement from government, he has remained actively engaged on five continents and has continued to speak and write on issues of international relations and US foreign policy.