Henry Kissinger Urges Greater Cooperation Between China And The U.S.

Xi Jinping Meets with Henry Kissinger

South China Morning Post: Kissinger urges greater cooperation with China as ‘the world’s centre of gravity’ shifts

US elder statesman tells a Columbia University conference the only alternative to positive relations between Washington and Beijing is global destruction.

Speaking at a conference that featured China’s vice-premier Liu Yandong as a keynote speaker, Kissinger said the only alternative to positive relations between Washington and Beijing is global destruction. Liu, in turn, said China’s economy will open more after the government’s key political meeting in Beijing next month.

“China’s Belt and Road Initiative, in seeking to connect China to Central Asia and eventually to Europe will have the practical significance of shifting the world’s centre of gravity from the Atlantic to the Pacific and will involve the cultures of Eurasia, each of whom will have to decide what relationship to this region they will see, and so will the United States,” Kissinger said.

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WNU Editor: The problem with the current U.S. - China relationship is the trade balance, and how it favors China. Henry Kissinger may want better relations, but if China dos not bend on this issue .... it will be a relationship that will definitely not work.