James R. Lilley

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James Roderick Lilley

James Roderick Lilley (born January 15, 1928 in Tsingtao , Shandong ; † November 12, 2009 in Washington, DC ) was an American diplomat who was ambassador to South Korea between 1986 and 1989 and ambassador to the People's Republic from 1989 to 1991 China was.

Life

James Roderick Lilley grew up in the Republic of China , where his father was a manager for the Standard Oil Company and his mother was a teacher. After attending the Phillips Exeter Academy, he did military service in the US Army in Fort Dix from 1947 to 1948 and then began an undergraduate degree at Yale University , which he completed in 1951 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). In the Korean War that followed , he served in the US Air Force from 1951 to 1954 . In 1954, at the beginning of the Cold War, he became an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and served until 1965 in their representations in Japan , Taiwan , Cambodia and Thailand . After serving as Deputy Head of the CIA Mission in Laos between 1965 and 1968 , he served as Deputy Head of the CIA Mission in Hong Kong between 1968 and 1970 .

After Lilley completed his postgraduate studies at George Washington University in 1972 with a Master of Arts (MA), he was head of the CIA mission in the People's Republic of China between 1973 and 1975 and then intelligence officer for China from 1975 to 1978 in the Central Intelligence Agency. In 1978 he resigned from the service of the CIA and was then an adjunct professor ( adjunct professor ) for economics at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies . From 1978 to 1981 he was also a consultant for the Hunt Oil Company and United Technologies Corporation (UTC). He was then Political Coordinator and Senior Specialist for East Asia of the National Security Council ( NSC ) from February to November 1981 , Director of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) from 1981 to 1984 and advisor to the Otis Elevator Company between 1984 and 1985 .

In 1985, James R. Lilley in US State Department deputy head of Department East Asia and Pacific (Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs ) and this function held until the 1986th On October 16, 1986, he was appointed ambassador to South Korea as the successor to Richard L. Walker and delivered his credentials on November 26, 1986 . He remained in this post until January 3, 1989 and was then replaced by Donald Gregg . Subsequently, on April 20, 1989, the China expert was appointed ambassador to the People's Republic of China , where on May 8, 1989 he handed over his accreditation as the successor to Winston Lord . He held this position until May 10, 1991, when J. Stapleton Roy succeeded him there. During his tenure in office, the Tian'anmen massacre occurred , in which on June 3 and 4, 1989, the Chinese military violently suppressed popular protests in central Beijing. He was a sharp critic of the practice and hosted top Chinese dissident Fang Lizhi at the embassy for a year and a month before the Chinese allowed Fang to travel to the United States. On the other hand, he also played a vital role in organizing a secret trip by two high-ranking US officials to Beijing after the massacre to reassure China that the United States valued its relationship with Beijing.

Lilley was an honorary member of the Advisory Committee of the John Otho Marsh Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He was also scientists (Resident Fellow ) and director of the Program of Asian Studies of the American Enterprise Institute . His marriage to Sally Booth in 1954 resulted in three sons Jeffrey, Doug and Michael Lilley. He died of complications from prostate cancer .

Publications

Lilley wrote numerous non-fiction books that dealt with foreign policy and regional East Asian issues such as Malays in Thailand . His publications include:

  • Beyond MFN. Trade with China and American Interests , 1994
  • Taiwan in a Transformed Global Setting. Summary of a Transpacific Diaologue , co-authors King Yuh Chang, Natale Bellocchi, and Parris Chang, 1994
  • Crisis in the Taiwan Strait , co-author Chuck Downs, 1997
  • China Hands. Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy in Asia , co-author Jeffrey Lilley, 2004
  • Asian Security Handbook. An Assessment of Political-Security Issues in the Asia-Pacific Region , co-editors William M. Carpenter, David G. Wiencek and Henry Stephen Albinsky, Verlag ME Sharpe, 2007, ISBN 1-5632-4813-1

Web links

Commons : James R. Lilley  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Korea on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  2. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for China on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
personal data
SURNAME Lilley, James R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lilley, James Roderick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat, East Asian scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Tsingtao , Shandong , Republic of China
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 2009
Place of death Washington, DC