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This sense of nostalgia, expressed publicly by Xi, reveals that today's China has not managed to find a new American interlocutor who trusts it for joint strategic choices...
Xi Jinping sent a message of condolence to Joe Biden on the death of Henry Kissinger. The Doctor of Diplomacy is defined as "a dear and old friend of the Chinese people". "Lao peng you" (old friend) is the highest certificate of appreciation that the Party-State can give to a foreigner; The addition of the "beloved" part underscores the personal affection Xi and his comrades had for the man who, with his clandestine visit to Beijing in July 1971 and secret talks with Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong, opened the door to a 'thaw' ' between the United States and Communist China.
Upon closer inspection, Kissinger's real "friend" is Xi, not Joe Biden. It is the communist general secretary who misses the advice of his dear American friend, not the White House, which in fact had recently expressed disappointment that Kissinger always kept the door open to Beijing, while the Biden administration's envoys they had to stay in the anteroom.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry recalled that the former US Secretary of State "has long supported the development of relations with the People's Republic, making a historic contribution with over a hundred trips to China."
This sense of nostalgia, expressed publicly by Xi, reveals that today's China has not managed to find a new American interlocutor who trusts it for joint strategic choices. Whenever Kissinger came to Beijing, senior Communist leaders received him with full respect and consulted him above all else, wanting to understand the deeper sense of Washington politics.
In May, the Chinese ambassador to the United States went to the 'grand old man's' home to wish him a happy birthday. And Kissinger had once again underlined that a new form of understanding between the two rival and near-enemy superpowers is vital to the world.
His main concern was the risk of war over Taiwan, and he said: "Taiwan is an insoluble problem, the only solution is to maintain the status quo for a few more years during which both sides must avoid threats and limit military deployments".
Last July Kissinger was in Beijing for the last time, hosted by Xi Jinping and in all likelihood repeating his advice to maintain the status quo of relations with Taipei. The state press ran the headline: "What is most lacking in American politics today is the pragmatism combined with the rationality of Henry Kissinger." So, a criticism of Joe Biden. But in recent years Xi's China has seemed even more orphaned by the pragmatism that led to the Nixon-Mao meltdown, unable to assuage his mistrust of the West and suspicions that the Americans are plotting to "encircle, contain and suppress legitimate China". / Pamphlet
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