Kissinger Warns Biden Against Endless Confrontation With China
- Nixon’s top diplomat, now 99, talks about US-China ties now
- Says European leaders have lost continent’s sense of direction
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Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said geopolitics today requires “Nixonian flexibility” to help defuse conflicts between the US and China as well as between Russia and the rest of Europe.
While warning that China shouldn’t become a global hegemon, the man who helped reestablish US-China ties in the 1970s said that President Joe Biden should be wary of letting domestic politics interfere with “the importance of understanding the permanence of China.”