Posted on 12/05/2023 10:48:24 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Henry A. Kissinger died on Wednesday, November 29, 2023. And I bought my fourth Kissinger book, Diplomacy, at Half Price Books just the day before.
I started buying Kissinger books in the middle of 2022 with the purchase of On China, according to my catalog of books on LibraryThing.
There is lots of fun stuff in On China, starting with the British Macartney mission to China in 1793. See, the Brits wanted to trade with China, so they sailed around the world to China to show the Chinese how great it would be. But the Son of Heaven wasn't having anything to do with trade. First of all, the Chinese regarded all foreigners as barbarians, and second, all they knew was tribute and gifts to and from the barbarians. It was shortly after humiliating Macartney that the Qing dynasty lost the Mandate of Heaven and China entered its Century of Humiliation that only ended with the Nixon/Kissinger trip to China.
Whatabout Mao Zedong? Kissinger says that Mao would frequently inject Confucian sayings into their negotiations. I was shocked: Mao a Confucian scholar? I thought he was a stem-to-stern Commie.
The other surprise from On China is that Kissinger has been visiting China regularly ever since 1971. His last visit was last July, and President Xi said:
"The Chinese people never forget their old friends, and Sino-U.S. relations will always be linked with the name of Henry Kissinger."
But why would Mao care about friendship with the U.S.? Because his big worry was the Soviet Union and its divisions poised on China's border. Just like we worried about the Soviet divisions threatening the Fulda Gap.
On the other hand, there are clearly a lot of people that think that Kissinger was evil, mostly lefties that didn't like the bombing of Cambodia
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
During the American advance into Germany, Kissinger, though only a private (the lowest military rank), was put in charge of the administration of the city of Krefeld because of a lack of German speakers on the division's intelligence staff. Within eight days he had established a civilian administration.
I call total horse crap on this article. Kissinger was behind the rise of China and he mentored Klaus Schwab of the WEF. A more odious example of scum and villainy than Kissinger cannot be found.
No.
Corrupt through and through.
Traitor changed allegiance to communist China was paid huge amounts of money.
At Doorstops R' Us?
Kissinger was determined to blur the lines between the United States and a failed Europe.
“I call total horse crap on this article. Kissinger was behind the rise of China and he mentored Klaus Schwab of the WEF. A more odious example of scum and villainy than Kissinger cannot be found.”
Totally agree.
We were as lucky to have him as someone is to have testicular cancer. Really, one of the most wicked men that walked this earth. Glad he’s dead.
100% correct.
He wanted his fellow Jews in Israel bloodied up or defeated until Nixon over ruled him
Look what Kissinger's opeing to China brought us. How is the Chinese flu working for ya these days?
Kissinger wanted to live with dictatorships where as Reagan wanted to get rid of them.
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