Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said that geopolitics today requires flexibility similar to that of former US President Richard Nixon, to be able to defuse conflicts between the United States and China, as well as between Russia and the rest of Europe.
Kissinger, who was the architect of re-establishing relations between America and China in the 1970s, warned against allowing China to become a global hegemon, and at the same time stressed that US President Joe Biden should be wary of allowing domestic politics to influence “the importance of understanding his for the survival of China.
Kissinger, 99, said in an interview with Bloomberg that Biden and previous US administrations were greatly influenced by the domestic view of China, stressing that "it is of course important to prevent the domination of China or any other country on the world, but that does not It can be achieved through endless confrontations" with Beijing.
Kissinger had previously warned that the growing hostility that characterizes relations between the United States and China heralds a "global catastrophe similar to World War I," according to a Bloomberg report.
In evaluating the performance of the leaders of European countries today - from French President Emmanuel Macron to German Olaf Schulz - Kissinger said he was saddened by the fact that "the current European leadership lacks clarity of direction and purpose", unlike previous European leaders such as former German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and French President Preceded by Charles de Gaulle.
The former US Secretary of State and veteran politician also commented - during his speech to Bloomberg - on the Russian war in Ukraine, which constitutes a major crisis for Europe, explaining that comments he had made earlier this year regarding the need to start negotiations to end the war were misunderstood.
He believed that the time to sit at the negotiating table was approaching, and that the discussion on the future of Crimea should be left to negotiations, and not try to chart its fate before the conflict stopped.