Dispatch from Beijing
With Jeff J. Brown
Few people have the grasp on the inner workings of geopolitics as Dr. Godfree Roberts, who will be publishing “China 2020 – Everything You Know Is Wrong”, later this year. Fellow author and host Jeff J. Brown gets Godfree’s take on the just concluded visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping with American President Donald Trump, at the latter’s sumptuous Mar-A-Lago private residence. On the surface, it seems to have been a non-event. But Godfree and Jeff explain that there is a lot to read in all those Florida tea leaves, left in their wake.
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BELOW: Trump being DJT and Xi doing his XJP thing, at Mar-A-Lago, Florida. In the years to come, this informal tête-à-tête, by two of the world’s most powerful leaders (along with Russian President Vladimir Putin), will hopefully have positive repercussions for the fate of humanity. (Images by SCMP)
Trump and Xi taking a brisk walk in Florida. Most of the summit photos and videos released to the media show no interpreters nearby. Usually they are stuck like chewing gum on each leader’s arm, with clipboards in hand. This suggests that the White House and Zhongnanhai want to project a relaxed “Thought I’d stop by, buddy” atmosphere, which is apparently what it was. (Image by SCMP)
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Jeff J. Brown—TGP’s Beijing correspondent— is the author of 44 Days (2013), Reflections in Sinoland – Musings and Anecdotes from the Belly of the New Century Beast (summer 2015), and Doctor WriteRead’s Treasure Trove to Great English (2015). He is currently writing an historical fiction, Red Letters – The Diaries of Xi Jinping, due out in 2016. In addition, a new anthology on China, China Rising, Capitalist Roads, Socialist Destinations, is also scheduled for publication this summer. Jeff is commissioned to write monthly articles for The Saker and The Greanville Post, touching on all things China, and the international political & cultural scene
In China, he has been a speaker at TEDx, the Bookworm Literary Festival, the Capital M Literary Festival, the Hutong, as well as being featured in an 18-part series of interviews on Radio Beijing AM774, with former BBC journalist, Bruce Connolly. He has guest lectured at international schools in Beijing and Tianjin.
Jeff grew up in the heartland of the United States, Oklahoma, and graduated from Oklahoma State University. He went to Brazil while in graduate school at Purdue University, to seek his fortune, which whet his appetite for traveling the globe. This helped inspire him to be a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tunisia in 1980 and he lived and worked in Africa, the Middle East, China and Europe for the next 21 years. All the while, he mastered Portuguese, Arabic, French and Mandarin, while traveling to over 85 countries. He then returned to America for nine years, whereupon he moved back to China in 2010. He currently lives in Beijing with his wife, where he writes, while being a school teacher in an international school. Jeff is a dual national French-American.
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