Authors: James R. Lilley, Jeffrey Lilley
ISBN-13: 9781586483432, ISBN-10: 1586483439
Format: Paperback
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Date Published: July 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
During a government career spanning four decades, James Lilley served in the CIA, White House, State Department, and Defense Department. He is the only American to have served as the head of the American missions in Beijing, where he was ambassador from 1989-1991, and Taiwan, where he was Director of the American Institute in Taiwan from 1982-1984. He also served as the U.S. ambassador to South Korea from 1986-1989. He is currently a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. Jeffrey Lilley is a journalist. He lives in Silver Springs, Maryland, with his wife and two sons.
One of America's most respected diplomats on a life spent serving in the Far East
… there is more to China Hands than spying. Lilley was present at the creation of George H.W. Bush's special relationship with Deng Xiaoping in 1977. He offers new information on the internal U.S. government battle over the August 1982 communiqué with China that was supposed to limit U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and also sheds light on a secret Ronald Reagan memo for the file that immediately rendered the communiqué a dead letter. He also revisits Reagan's simultaneous "six assurances" to Taiwan that promised no pressure to negotiate with Beijing. He describes his role in preparing the way for controversial arms sales to Taiwan, particularly the Indigenous Defense Fighter and the F-16 aircraft. Andrew J. Nathan
Note to the Reader | ix | |
Prologue | xi | |
Part I | Growing Up, 1916-1947 | |
1 | "Where the Daisies Cover the Country Land" | 3 |
2 | Only a Memory | 24 |
3 | Americanization | 35 |
4 | An Anguished Cry | 47 |
Part II | Intelligence Officer in Action, 1948-1968 | |
5 | A Ready Recruit | 65 |
6 | A Covert Foot Soldier | 77 |
7 | On the Edge of Conflict | 97 |
8 | Running the Secret War | 106 |
9 | Of Coups, Floods, and Failures | 119 |
Part III | China Opens Up, 1969-1981 | |
10 | Reading the Tea Leaves | 135 |
11 | Breaking Down Walls | 152 |
12 | Kissinger's Man in China | 169 |
13 | Good Fortune | 196 |
14 | Riding a Wave | 213 |
Part IV | Diplomat in Action, 1982-1991 | |
15 | Righting the Balance | 227 |
16 | The Golden Years | 249 |
17 | Pushing for Change | 264 |
18 | "Through the Blur of Our Tears" | 282 |
19 | Stepping on a Volcano | 297 |
20 | Small Victories | 335 |
Epilogue | 373 | |
Acknowledgments | 383 | |
Notes | 385 | |
Bibliography | 402 | |
Index | 406 |