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Henry kissinger world order book5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The subtle diplomatic architecture that Kissinger constructed in those historic visits looks increasingly under threat. It says much about the dangerous tilt of the world that when we meet – 43 years later – we find ourselves talking about the possibility of war between the US and China. While the physical challenges of building diplomatic ties with Mao's China were not quite comparable, politically it felt like the equivalent of smashing through the stratosphere. Just two years before it had put the first man on the moon. It was a period when the US was constantly redefining the possible. ![]() The official story for the next couple of days was that he was ill, but in fact President Nixon's right-hand man was on a secret journey to Beijing that would electrify the world. In July 1971, Henry Kissinger got into a small plane in Islamabad and briefly disappeared off the map. ![]()
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