FPA Centennial Lecture: The Sino-American Split and its Consequences; a talk with Ambassador Chas Freeman

Event Details

Date:
Thursday, June 13, 2019
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM 
Location:
The Century Association
7 W 43rd St
New York, NY
Event type
Lecture / Panel  

Event Transcripts and Video

Please join the FPA in welcoming Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, who will deliver the final Centennial Lecture, titled "The Sino-American Split and its Consequences." Ambassador Freeman, who was Assitant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1993-94, will be discussing paths forward for the U.S.-China relationship, as well as his own personal experience including his role as the principal interpreter during President Richard Nixon's ground-breaking visit to China in 1972.

 

Link to remarks here: https://chasfreeman.net/the-sino-american-split-and-its-consequences/

Event Speakers

    • Ambassador (Ret.) Chas W. Freeman - Speaker
      Chair, Projects International, Inc.; Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs

      Chas Freeman chairs Projects International, Inc.  For more than four decades, Projects International has helped its partner enterprises and clients to create business ventures across borders.  It facilitates their establishment of new businesses through the design,  negotiation, capitalization, and implementation of greenfield investments, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, franchises, one-off transactions, sales and agencies in other countries.  The firm operates on five continents.

      Ambassador Freeman is a career diplomat (retired) who was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1993-94, earning the highest public service awards of the Department of Defense for his roles in designing a NATO-centered post-Cold War European security system and in reestablishing defense and military relations with China. He served as U. S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm). He was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during the historic U.S. mediation of Namibian independence from South Africa and Cuban troop withdrawal from Angola.

      Ambassador Freeman worked as Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires in the American embassies at both Bangkok (1984-1986) and Beijing (1981-1984). He was Director for Chinese Affairs at the U.S. Department of State from 1979-1981. He was the principal American interpreter during the late President Nixon’s path-breaking visit to China in 1972. In addition to his Middle Eastern, African, East Asian and European diplomatic experience, he had a tour of duty in India.

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