Bill GreenGEORGE BUSH DECKED IN CHINA
October 29th 2008 01:50
There is very little written about how China emerged after the Cultural Revolution, allowing embassies to be opened in their country. The US was two years behind the early ones but not for want of trying. Australia who opened one of the first, aided the US in the diplomatic machinations required for full diplomatic accreditation.
The West was suspicious of China and should have been. Now there is an allaying of China fears and there shouldn’t be. I travelled to China as a press secretary to a deputy prime minister of Australia. We travelled in a Royal Australian Air Force jet loaded with CIA electronic spying gear. It was the same equipment taken into China by the disgraced former president, Richard Nixon.
It was a volatile time and I observed three cultures intermingling. China then showed itself as oppressive and murderous. It is still the same.
My book, Compulsively Murdering Mao, is a watcher’s brief and contains all the elements of the three cultures that will always be at loggerheads. There was then, and there is now, an indulgence of feeling for China; certainly it is reflected in the contracts and agreements that are approved.
The book depths the character of the cultures involved and how they clashed in personal ways. One of the players involved in the physicality of the moment was George Bush senior. He was then the senior representative of the American/China liaison office. He attempted to eject a writer from the Australian embassy despite being a guest at the embassy.
No one would deny the economies of the planet are in for a wild ride and my book refers to the necessary aspects that require examination before negotiations with China’s government commercial institutions are concluded.
Compulsively Murdering Mao is available on Amazon now.
Further details are available on www.billgreenbooks.com
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