American politician and diplomat and geopolitical advisor, served as U.S. Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977 (1923–2023)
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American secretary of state who opened relations with China, negotiated détente with the Soviet Union, and won a Nobel Peace Prize — while standing accused of war crimes for the bombing of Cambodia and enabling coups, genocide, and authoritarian regimes across three continents.
Born in Germany in 1923, Kissinger fled Nazi persecution as a Jewish refugee in 1938, fought in the U.S. Army during World War II, then rose through Harvard to become a foreign policy expert and government consultant before Nixon appointed him national security advisor in 1969 and secretary of state in 1973. His Realpolitik reshaped the Cold War: he pioneered détente with Moscow, orchestrated the opening to China, ended the Yom Kippur War through shuttle diplomacy, and negotiated the Paris Peace Accords that closed American involvement in Vietnam. The Nobel committee gave him the 1973 Peace Pr…
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I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion.
If Communist China agrees to renounce the use of force in the formosa strait, we could consider opening up channels of non-official contact... journalists, students, tourists, etc.
I...was a little puzzled by your suggestion that we should return to a diplomacy like Bismarck's.
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