The Unz Review By Ron Unz
Last week I published an article discussing former Ambassador Chas Freeman, one of America’s most highly-regarded professional diplomats of the last half-century. Very early in his career, Freeman had been the personal interpreter for President Richard Nixon during his historic 1972 trip to China and meetings with Mao, and that country remained one of his areas of special expertise.
During subsequent decades, Freeman served as our ambassador to Saudi Arabia at the time of the Gulf War and was afterward appointed as an assistant secretary of defense. Then in early 2009, the Obama Administration nominated him as chairman of our National Intelligence Council, responsible for assessing and aggregating the findings of our 17 different intelligence agencies, and then providing the final report to our president and other top leaders. But the Israel Lobby regarded Freeman as insufficiently loyal to the foreign nation that they served, so their activists successfully mobilized to block his appointment.
Despite his very distinguished record of accomplishment, Freeman was rarely interviewed by our media so I was only slightly aware of him. However, over the last year he had become a regular guest on several YouTube channels and he greatly impressed me with his knowledge and acumen, prompting me to publish that piece quoting long sections of his extremely sensible views on our troubled relationship with China.
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