A secret trip by Henry Kissinger grew into a half-century-long relationship with China

How Kissinger’s Secret Visit to Beijing Set Stage for U.S.-China Rapprochment

How Kissinger’s Secret Visit to Beijing Set Stage for U.S.-China Rapprochment - Meeting with Premier Zhou in 1971 was first high-level U.S.-China gathering in nearly 20 years; led to Nixon visit, normalization of relations

Online, Chinese Remember Two Kissingers, China's Friend and Foe

To Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party, Henry Kissinger was "a most valued old friend" for his role in reestablishing ties with the U.S. after 20 years of postwar hostility. But after his death this week at 100, Chinese people online expressed mixed feelings about the American who, with then-Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai and U.S. President Richard Nixon in 1972, cleared a path for the impoverished nation to become an economic rival to the U.S. …

Rapprochement With China Kissinger's Most Lasting Achievement - Former Virginia Senator

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United States’ rapprochement with China is the most lasting achievement of the late Henry Kissinger - former US secretary of state - as it helped enrich the entire world, former Virginia State Senator Richard Black told Sputnik.

Kissinger's death marks end to backdoor deals by major powers: Scholar - Focus Taiwan

Taipei, Dec. 1 (CNA) Taiwan is one of the small countries whose interests were considered expendable in the eyes of Henry Kissinger, whose death brings to an end the era of covert dealings between major powers, according to a Taiwanese scholar.

Kissinger’s farewell to China

China deeply admired Henry Kissinger, the strategist behind the historic rapprochement between Beijing and Washington in 1972. He was seen as a trusted interlocutor, extending a welcoming hand as a true “friend of China.” The death of this former U.S. Secretary of State has not gone unnoticed in the Asian giant. State-owned media, including the more hardline outlets, have acknowledged his passing with warmth and respect. Leaders have conveyed th…

A secret trip by Henry Kissinger grew into a half-century-long relationship with China

BEIJING (AP) — Official China called Henry Kissinger “an old friend.” A commentator likened him to a giant panda, a goodwill ambassador between two countries that have been at odds more often than not over the decades. Kissinger, who died Wednesday, developed a special relationship with China in the second half of his 100-year-long life. It started with a secret trip in 1971, when he feigned illness while at a meeting in Pakistan and flew underc…