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Chas Freeman chairs Projects International, Inc.

  • For more than four decades, Projects International has helped its partner enterprises and clients to create business ventures across borders. It facilitates 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. The firm operates on five continents.
  • 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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Colin Maxwell
Colin Maxwell
2 years ago

A seriously good interview – thank you AHH! Fascinating where Chas Freeman predicts (47:00) that the US is approaching a time when the existing party structure is likely to disappear and how similar this might turn out to the circumstances in 1854 when the Republican Party emerged as an anti-slavery… Read more »