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

摘要

Chas Freeman, a career American diplomat, argues that "Diplomacy is not just about preventing problems or deterring others from creating them" but "about redefining the world and regional orders, about creating opportunities to advance the national interest, and about crafting strategic architecture that embraces the capacity needed to pursue them." In this collection of his speeches, he traces US-China relations since 1972, when he served as Nixon's Chinese interpreter and a drafter of the Shanghai Communique, and analyses the forces that will shape our future relations.