Posted on 05/02/2021 4:50:52 PM PDT by blam
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who once led efforts to bring China into the world economy to potentially spread the influence of democracy, now warns of potential nuclear and high-tech war between the two world powers.
"For the first time in human history, humanity has the capacity to extinguish itself in a finite period of time," Kissinger, 97, told former Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., at the McCain Institute's 2021 Sedona Forum on Friday. "We have developed the technology of a power that is beyond what anybody imagined even 70 years ago.
"And now, to the nuclear issue is added the high tech issue, which in the field of artificial intelligence, in its essence is based on the fact that man becomes a partner of machines and that machines can develop their own judgment.
"So in a military conflict between high-tech powers, it's of colossal significance."
After the Trump administration has pressed China on its human rights and trade abuses, the Biden administration seeks to balance its push for democracy with the threat of escalated tensions with China, which Kissinger considers "the biggest problem" for the U.S. and the word.
"If we can't solve that, then the risk is that all over the world a kind of cold war will develop between China and the United States," Kissinger said.
The difference between the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union pales in comparison to China, because the latter holds economic power.
"The Soviet Union had no economic capacity," he said. "They had military technological capacity.
"[They] didn't have developmental technological capacity as China does. China is a huge economic power in addition to being a significant military power."
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Why would China want a war?
They want to go back to eating slugs and grass?
The Chinese government wants more.
They are willing to bully and buy, but fight a war?
Those Chinese generals like their mansions and luxury cars.
Be a damn shame to lose them.
No one likes us, I don’t know why
We may not be perfect, but heaven knows we try
And all around, even our old friends put us down
Let’s drop the big one, see what happens
Hey Kissinger, how about the Cambodian Armageddon YOU caused, you lousy son of a bitch.
Guess which side Dr. Evil is rooting for?
Henry Kissinger.? The idiot that “opened up” China? Who dealt with the butcher Mao? Whose policy built up backward China into the Red Dragon that threatens freedom around the world? That Henry Kissinger?
I thought he was dead.
Seems like he's been 97 for the past 40 years. Maybe it's just me.
I know, right? I remember watching interviews of him back in the 80s/90s where he looked positively ancient.
The Deep State from Obiden on down makes too much money to risk war with their business partners.
But they will still sell America out . . . quietly and without a shot.
Clueless. Do these geniuses ever think or admit that they might have made a mistake? Did anyone at that forum ask that?
Kissinger wins the prize for “I started this fire now you have to put it out.”
That’s what I have thought. We will have economic struggles with China, but I can’t believe China wants a military conflict.
Where’s that Keith Richards meme when you need it. :)
If anyone is doing whole blood transfusions taken from youthful people it would be this fossil relic of the Nixon years.
Every American has a right to live to 97—and Henry Kissinger should donate his organs to science while he is still alive to make it happen.
Science!
;-)
“Kissinger wins the prize for “I started this fire now you have to put it out.”
I knew some whacked out religious folk back in the 80’s who were convinced Kissinger was the Antichrist.
China doesn't believe a shooting war will be necessary when they can bribe, seduce, spy, negotiate, and brainwash their way to victory over the U.S. (which of course is exactly what they have done).
I am sure he is hoping for that. Shut up and take the marbles out of your throat old man. Stupid Bushite globalist.
And Midnight Soil; it is Cool and "Green".
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