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Interesting Times: China, America and the Shifting Balance of Prestige

The National Committee on United States-China Relations presents a talk with Ambassador Chas Freeman.

When:
June 6, 2013 6:00pm to 7:00pm
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When President Richard M. Nixon met with Chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing in February 1972, at his side was a young U.S. diplomat serving as his principal interpreter: Chas W. Freeman, Jr. had started studying Mandarin (and Taiwan’s dialect, Minnan) in Taiwan three years earlier; and he spent much of his long diplomatic career specializing in China, including Taiwan. In Interesting Times, Ambassador Freeman brings a broad and well-informed historical perspective to his analysis of the issues that have confronted the world’s two most powerful countries over the last four decades. He will discuss the challenges and opportunities in the relationship at a National Committee public program on Thursday, June 6, at Dorsey & Whitney in New York City

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BIO

Among other posts, Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. was Assistant Secretary of Defense (1993-94), ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1989-92, during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm), acting Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, and Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d'affaires at the U.S. Embassies in Bangkok (1984-86) and Beijing (1981-84). He began his diplomatic career in India.

Since leaving government, Ambassador Freeman has chaired Projects International, Inc., a Washington-based business development firm that for nearly fifty years has arranged international private-sector joint ventures, acquisitions, and other business operations for its American and foreign clients.

Ambassador Freeman studied at the Universidad Nacional de México and in Taiwan, and earned a B.A. magna cum laude from Yale University as well as a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Cost: 
Free, registration required by June 4.