AMBASSADOR CHAS W. FREEMAN, JR.

U.S.-China Relations

Thursday, May 9, 6:30 pm
followed by reception

Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. is a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense, Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm), acting Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, and Chargé d’affaires at both Bangkok and Beijing. He began his diplomatic career in India but specialized in Chinese affairs. (He was the principal American interpreter during President Nixon’s visit to Beijing in 1972.)

Ambassador Freeman is a senior fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, and the author of several books on statecraft and diplomacy, including, Interesting Times: China, America, and the Shifting Balance of Prestige. He was the editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica entry on “diplomacy.”

Ambassador Freeman studied at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and in Taiwan, and earned an AB magna cum laude from Yale University as well as a JD from the Harvard Law School. He chairs Projects International, Inc., a Washington-based firm that for more than three decades has helped its American and foreign clients create ventures across borders, facilitating 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.

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Great Hall-ISH
1825 R Street, NW
Washington DC

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