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发帖数: 38600 | 1 The U.S. took a formal position on those claims before.
"In practice, as some in the region recall, long before the United States
turned against them as part of its “pivot to Asia” in 2010, America had
supported China’s claims in the Paracels and Spratlys. The U.S. Navy
facilitated China’s replacement of Japan’s military presence in both
island groups in 1945 because it considered that they were either part of
Taiwan, as Japan had declared, or – in the words of the Cairo Declaration
– among other “territories Japan [had] stolen from the Chinese...”
- Diplomacy on the Rocks: China and Other Claimants in the South China Sea
Remarks at Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University
Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret.)
Providence, Rhode Island, 10 April 2015 | b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 2 About Chas Freeman
"Ambassador Freeman is a career diplomat (retired) who was Assistant
Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1993-94,
earning the highest public service awards of the Department of Defense for
his roles in designing a NATO-centered post-Cold War European security
system and in reestablishing defense and military relations with China. He
served as U. S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (during operations Desert Shield
and Desert Storm). He was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for
African Affairs during the historic U.S. mediation of Namibian independence
from South Africa and Cuban troop withdrawal from Angola.
Ambassador Freeman worked as Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires
in the American embassies at both Bangkok (1984-1986) and Beijing (1981-
1984). He was Director for Chinese Affairs at the U.S. Department of State
from 1979-1981. He was the principal American interpreter during the late
President Nixon’s path-breaking visit to China in 1972. In addition to his
Middle Eastern, African, East Asian and European diplomatic experience, he
had a tour of duty in India." |
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