Kissinger Warns U.S. and China Must Set Limits to Avoid a Blowup
- Without rules, the situation may be ‘similar to World War I’
- Successor Pompeo has disavowed Kissinger’s opening to China
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Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said the U.S. and China must establish rules of engagement for their increasingly tense competition or risk recreating the uncertainty that characterized global politics leading up to World War I.
“Our leaders and their leaders have to discuss the limits beyond which they will not push threats,” Kissinger, 97, said Wednesday in a virtual discussion hosted by the Economic Club of New York. “And then they have to find a way of conducting such a policy over an extended period of time.”