Play Diplomacy -- An Autobiography of a Serving Diplomat

Author: Chen Weixiong
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: Some say, "Weak countries have no diplomacy," because they lack the ability to engage in diplomacy. Others say, "Strong countries have no diplomacy," because they have the capability to avoid it! So, what is the purpose of diplomacy, and how can one excel at it? A newly posted ambassador to a developed country wrote in his arrival report, "I felt on edge every day, as if walking on thin ice." Another newly appointed ambassador to a UN multilateral post wrote in his arrival report, "It was like a bull."
The author is a career diplomat who has worked in both underdeveloped Sierra Leone and developed superpower the United States. He has experienced both small-scale and grand settings. On the dazzling stage of diplomacy, he has served as a supporting actor for important figures and has also personally taken on the spotlight multiple times. With his humorous and witty language, as well as his insightful and "high-level, angled, and impactful" critiques, he reveals to the outside world how the "eighteen kinds of martial arts" and "writing tools" in the world of diplomacy are truly "played."