Chas Freeman
Chas Freeman
Charles W.Freeman, Jr., is an American diplomat, author, and writer. He served in the United States Foreign Service, the State and Defense Departments in many different capacities over the course of thirty years, with the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs calling his career "remarkably varied". Most notably, he worked as the main interpreter for Richard Nixon during his 1972 China visit and served as the U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1989 to 1992, where he dealt with the...
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I was struck by that. It meant to me that there was something new, a bit of flirtation with China going on.
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Saudi Arabia is taking a Chinese wife. The Saudis are not divorcing us. In Islam, you can have more than one wife and they can manage that.
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He had a disdain for ceremony. He didn't have much of a light touch.