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- Title: Interesting Times
- Author : Chas W. Freeman, Jr.
- Release Date : January 29, 2014
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2083 KB
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The decision that President Richard Nixon took in 1972 to bring to an end Washington’s 23-year-long attempt to isolate and overthrow the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC) changed the global political balance in deep and lasting ways. When Nixon held his meetings with Chairman Mao in Beijing in February 1972, at his side was a young U.S. diplomat who was serving as his principal interpreter: Chas W. Freeman, Jr. Freeman had started studying Mandarin (and Taiwan’s dialect, Minnan) just three years before and he spent many of the early years of his diplomatic career as a specialist in China affairs. Interesting Times: China, America, and the Shifting Balance of Prestige offers new insights into U.S.-China diplomacy as well as many of the most enduring analyses from Freeman’s 40 years as an astute China-watcher.
In Interesting Times, Freeman brings a broad and uniquely well-informed historical perspective to his discussion of Taiwan, various other strategic issues, and differences over human rights and economic and trade policies that confronted the world’s two most powerful countries throughout this period. He warns that the historical record suggests that no one can be complacent in assuming that this crucial relationship will always be managed in a sensible manner in the future.