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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was an early convert: 'I like him as a man before everything. 'From that point of view, it's a very dangerous period.' President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the Oval Office in Washington, October 16, 1973.Īs secretary of state in 1973 and '74, Kissinger fashioned a new style of diplomacy, sometimes spending weeks flying between capitals.

That's something that requires urgent attention.' 'So, we have a problem,' said Kissinger, 'which is that it could evolve into a general war between two high-tech countries. Today, China seems poised to take Taiwan by military force, and President Biden has said that the United States would come to Taiwan's defense. 'You cannot exclude it from the international system.' 'No, China's reentry into the international system would have happened,' Kissinger replied. Koppel asked, 'As you look back now, is the world better off because of that opening? Or is it a more dangerous place now?' Over the past 50 years, China has evolved to become a world power. In 1971, on a secret mission, Kissinger set the stage for President Richard Nixon's historic visit to China the following year. Today, Kissinger said, 'One of the positive outcomes of the policy that was in fact pursued by every American administration of both parties was that nuclear weapons have not been used for 75 years, nor were they used by any adversary. 'And this is too risky, and I think too expensive.' policy) made absolutely no sense: 'It means that against almost any form of attack we base our policy on a threat that will involve the destruction of all mankind,' Kissinger said then. Back in July of 1958, a young Mike Wallace asked an even younger Harvard professor to explain why the threat of massive nuclear retaliation (which was then U.S. Kissinger has been at the center of things for longer than most Americans have been alive. There are dangers in exhaustion, and a limited capacity to work.' 'It takes a certain capacity, physically,' he said. You might think that, on the cusp of turning 100 years old, Kissinger is sympathetic to an 80-year-old or a 76-year-old running for president.

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