Posted on 11/16/2020 12:46:48 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
The man who helped the United States establish friendly relations with China in the 1970s now says he is alarmed by escalating tensions between the two countries.
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, 97, is calling for the U.S. and China to establish rules of engagement for their rising competition on the global stage or risk leading into a blowup similar to World War I.
"Our leaders and [China's] leaders have to discuss the limits beyond which they will not push threats,” Kissinger said on Wednesday during a virtual discussion hosted by the Economic Club of New York. "They have to find a way of conducting such a policy over an extended period of time ... You can say this is totally impossible, and if it’s totally impossible, we will slide into a situation similar to World War I."
Kissinger is recognized with establishing relations between Communist China and the U.S. while he served under President Richard Nixon. He helped open up trade with the country and laid the groundwork for Nixon's historic weeklong visit to Beijing, Hangzhou, and Shanghai in 1972.
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I forgot we fought the Chinese in WWI...
Kissinger is the man responsible for setting the US on the “appease China at all costs” policy which we’ve practiced since Nixon’s trip to China almost half a century ago. Kissinger never met a dictator he didn’t like.
Was it over when the Chinese sank the Lusitania?
I once stepped into an elevator in NY City with Henry Kissinger. We rode 50 floors together.
That was 25 years ago, and he looked like a corpse then.
Hey Kissinger - I’d worry about the Chinese controlled Democrats in our midst first.
I didn’t realize Kissinger was still alive. I’ve eaten in the “Kissinger chair” at the Metropolitan Club in Washington DC, a nice corner table with a view of the district where he had breakfast every morning and read his paper.
While the headline may be a correct assessment, I wish Kissinger would shut the F up!
He’s done too much damage already, imho
Yeah, because nobody in the last 30 years used the opening
up of China to sell out the United States.
It was just Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon that sold the
United States out.
Kissinger and Nixon did not sell out the United States.
They opened up the nation for strategic reasons.
What greedy politicians and businessmen did, is not their
fault.
It was just Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon that sold the United States out.
They started it - and Kissinger has continued to make excuses for the PRC in the decades since then.
Did they just kill the Archduke of America? Oh wait they laid waste to the elderly population of the entire World and nobody does anything! I wonder why? Hummmm, the world and US are TRILLIONS in debt! Who is owed the most by the world? Why the elderly retired and those on disability. Hummmm.
Nope. We fought them in the Boxer Rebellion.
Kind of WW1-ish tech, except no aeroplanes.
Don’t know if it is true or not, but supposedly someone interviewed his brother years ago, and he speaks with a typical Bronx accent.
He said his brother Henry’s accent was just a put on, to sound European.
Nothing a few checks to Hunter won’t solve, we’ll give them what they want under Biden.
I know we fought them in the Boxer Rebellion
but it was a brief thing.. Yuk, yuk.
How many Cambodians did Kissinger kill?
China’s word is worthless. And agreement would only result in limiting the United States and therefore giving China an advantage
I didn't realize Dr. Kissinger was still around...
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