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In Interesting Times , Chas Freeman shares with readers four decades of his prolific and intelligent thinking on China and the Sino-American relationship. His aim consistently has been to challenge sloppy and misguided American thinking, whether engaged in by President Nixon in connection with his 1972 trip to China or the U.S. intelligence community that missed so many major developments over the years. Freeman challenges comfortable banalities, using words as a scalpel to reveal the tissue of slanderous euphemisms, delusions, and misunderstandings that constitute much of the corpus of discourse about China. Ambassador Freeman calls for America to develop a realistic, long-term, mutual interestbased conception of Sino-American relations capable of achieving the positive potential of ties between these two great nations.

DAVID M. LAMPTON

Professor and Director of China Studies at Johns HopkinsSAIS

Former President of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations

Interesting Times: China, America, and the Shifting Balance of Prestige is a widely perceptive analysis of the history of the Sino-American normalization process and the prospect that China can build on its economic success and growing defense capabilities to assume global political leadership like that which the U.S. exercised in the last century.

NICHOLAS LARDY

Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow

Peterson Institute for International Economics

Bold, incisive, innovative thinking and analysis are as rare in the field of foreign affairs as in other intellectual disciplines. Throughout his distinguished career in the Foreign Service, Ambassador Chas Freeman was renowned, and on occasion chastised, for his fearless determination to identify the consequences of trends and policy options without regard for the strictures of political correctness. Invariably, he assessed the implications of current developments in a longer-term time frame than most of his colleagues. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in this fascinating, enlightening, and provocative compilation of his writings, speeches, and musings on China and its complex relationships with the United States and the world. Chinas rapid rise is the dominating feature of the international landscape and is likely to confront the United States with its principal national security challenge over the next several decades. Anyone with an interest in foreign relations will benefit from exposure to the wealth of material, both historical and forward-looking, in this stimulating book.

J. STAPLETON ROY

Former U.S. Ambassador to China

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Other works by
Chas W. Freeman, Jr.

Cooking Western in China

with P. T. Freeman ( ) and Deng Baorong ( )

(South China Press, 1987)

Arts of Power: Statecraft and Diplomacy

(U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 1997)

The Diplomats Dictionary

(U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2nd ed., 2010)

Americas Misadventures in the Middle East

(Just World Books, 2010)

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All text in this work 2012 Chas W. Freeman, Jr.

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Cartography and typesetting by Jane T. Sickon for Just World Publishing, LLC. Cover design by Lewis Rector for Just World Publishing, LLC.

Publishers Cataloging-in-Publication

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Freeman, Charles W.

Interesting times : China, America, and the shifting balance of prestige / Chas W. Freeman, Jr.

p. cm.

LCCN: 2012950762

ISBN (hc.): 978-1-935982-28-9

ISBN (pb.): 978-1-935982-26-5

ISBN (eBook): 978-1-935982-37-1

1. United StatesForeign relationsChina. 2. ChinaForeign relationsUnited States. 3. Balance of power. I. Title.

E183.8.C5F74 2012 327.73051

QBI12-600220

Map 1: Chinas Provinces

Cartography by Jane T. Sickon and 2013 Just World Books

Map 2: Maritime Claims in the South China Sea

Cartography by Jane T. Sickon and 2013 Just World Books

Introduction

China and America in Interesting Times

October 2012

This is a book about the progress of the first forty years of official interaction between the United States and the Peoples Republic of China and the prospects for the next forty. The printed text is supplemented by material that resides on the Internet. The author participated in many of the events that formed the Sino-American relationship. This is a work born of experience and a life in the public policy arena, not academic theory or scholarship. The analyses in this book were not written to confirm the conventional American wisdom about China, but to challenge it.

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