Posted on 04/25/2021 3:29:07 PM PDT by Marchmain
Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner sat down with former US Secretary of State and long-time diplomat Henry Kissinger.
They discussed the pandemic's effects on global politics, China's rise as a world power, and the future of the European Union...
Kissinger: In this country, the majority of people have had health and safety concerns that they've never experienced before. And they have been very occupied with maintaining a lifestyle that they used to take for granted. At the same time, there are groups who are systematically urging a new governmental and national philosophy. And while they are not the majority or even close to a majority, they continue pursuing their convictions - while the rest of the country is focused more on day-to-day life...
Kissinger: In America, there has been growth in national consciousness in this period. It was already developing, encouraged by the previous administration... By contrast, in the period immediately following World War II, and for about 30 years afterwards, the idea that America and Europe were fundamentally linked was widespread, certainly in the educated classes. And contact with foreign countries in that period, especially contact with Europe, was a matter of course. This idea is much less prevalent nowadays. You don't read reports on European elections in American newspapers anymore..., in that sense, a certain psychological separation has taken place.
Kissinger: The EU has not yet managed to create a political identity and a political consciousness as an organic unit. The decisions are made by balancing political preferences in an essentially administrative manner on a case by case basis. So, there is no vision that can be described as a specifically or uniquely European vision.
"High-tech powers" is a better way to say it. And the propensity of high-tech is towards monopoly. That needs to be overcome.
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“Long article, wide range of important topics.”
He still shilling for ChiComs?
“Long article, wide range of important topics.”
He still shilling for ChiComs?
Good God, how old is this guy?
Did he ever look young?
I don’t care what Dr. Evil thinks.
I’ve heard quite enough from Kissinger over the decades...he should shut up.
Written ? It’s a good thing he’s not talking because Zzzzzzzzzzzz
read it and find out
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“read it and find out”
Bad answer.
I assume it means yes.
Why are you shilling for Korrupt Kissinger?
I wonder where’s Kissinger now?
I wonder what’s wrinkling his brow?
I wonder with whom he is acting wise,
briefing spies, swapping lies?
I wonder if he has a plan
To invade old Uzbekistan?
I wonder what he
Thinks of our Hillary?
I wonder where’s Kissinger now?
I wonder where’s Kissinger now
While dreaming of his days with Mao?
Does Henry spend all his time plotting coups,
seeking clues, sending cues?
I’m thankful that his term is through
His leaving was long overdue
The role of adviser
Requires someone wiser
I wonder where’s Kissinger now?
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China is Kissinger version of Frankenstein’s monster.
Kissinger was born May 27, 1923, so he is 25 months short of his 100th birthday. Even though he wrote about the Congress of Vienna, he did not actually attend it.
Presumably, earth will be relieved of him before too much longer. Gee. Wonder what his next stop is?
Will never forget the sight of HK and RN toasting the commie butcher. Good work, fellas.
Foreign policy is actually pretty boring stuff that everyday Americans don’t have a clue about and could care less...until there is WW 11 or the cold war. In my opinion Kissinger is a genius and the Milton Friedman of foreign affairs. The nimrod tyros of recent years..Cinton, Kerry and now (for God’s sake Blinken) couldn’t carry this man’s shoes. Pompeo was a brief breath of fresh air and Gen. (Ret) Jack Keane are a ray of hope. Otherwise we have nothing. Henry K. a national treasure. IMHO.
Kissinger was the worst.
And all the others are worse because they emulate Kissinger.
Except Pomoeo. Pomoeo is the anti-Kissinger.
Kissinger has done as much damage to the world and the position we are in as anyone else in history.
He wants to "manage the relationship" just as he did that with the Soviet Union. The problem is that, as he sees in part, economically the Soviet Union was always a basket case and could only compete with the United States by keeping its economy on an exhausting war footing.
Because of this weakness, we could make serious policy mistakes as we did under Truman and again with the loss of Indochina and still recover.
As long as we allow the Chinese economy to become the factory to the world, we can compete with competent leadership, but every time we elect (or erect) fools like the current administration, the Chinese will tighten the noose around our necks a little further.
What we need is a short, sharp conflict that lasts long enough for Chinese suppliers to be replaced by others to reduce this dependency and to stimulate our own economic independence as well as that of other countries before we're all Chinese slaves. Look at the way nationally recognized institutions in the US such as media, universities, the Chamber of Commerce, and even sports leagues kowtow to China. To destroy this you have to destroy its economic basis of Chinese power.
We agree to disagree.😐
No I don’t agree to disagree with you.
Anymore than I agree to disagree that Mao wasn’t so bad, Stalin wasn’t bad etc...
Those aren’t agree to disagree issues and neither is Kissinger’s utter corruption and destruction.
I agree with your take on Kissinger. His book On China is magnificent.
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