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As Mao Zedong’s People’s Liberation Army swept through China during the Civil War against the Nationalists in 1948 and 1949, it took…
The Collection Since 1986, the Foreign Affairs Oral History Program of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST)…
President – Susan Rockwell Johnson is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. She retired in 2015 and has…
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Stephen F. Dachi had one of the more unusual — and as it turned out, fateful — backgrounds of anyone…
It was one of the most horrific events in U.S. diplomatic history. On August 7, 1998, between 10:30 and 10:40…