2023-07-20 18:56:55
Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Chinahas offered his respects today to Henry Kissingerenthusiast of the domino theory that justified the overthrow of left-wing governments and the persistent massacres of communists on several continents for decades: the thing about the bed and the strange companions in their splendor. China forgives Kissinger her sins for bringing her closer to United States half a century ago.
“We never forget our old friends and we will never forget your historic contribution to the development of Sino-US relations and the friendship of our peoples,” Xi told the secretary of state and security adviser in times of Richard Nixon y Gerald Ford. China has underlined the substance of the guest and the trip. He has been received in the same Diaoyutai State Guest House that already served as the venue for that germinal secret meeting of 1971. He has spoken with Wang Yithe highest Chinese diplomat, and Li ShangfuDefense Minister, sanctioned by Washington since 2018 for the alleged purchase of Russian weapons. And he has granted Xi an audience after having ignored in recent weeks Janet YellenSecretary of the Treasury, and John Kerry, special envoy for climate affairs. he had enjoyed it Antony BlinkSecretary of State, and Xi likely regretted it the next day when he was called a dictator by US President Joe Biden.
Kissinger landed in Beijing before Kerry took off but the overlap is accidental. The first’s trip had been planned months before and both Kissinger and the White House They have insisted on its private nature. Its purpose, according to the Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post, is to understand the Chinese elites and share their learning with the Americans, hoping that their prestige on both sides oils the rapprochement.
100 visits to China
Kissinger has completed one hundred years and one hundred visits to China, according to public television. Perhaps they are inflated accounts but Kissinger, in any case, is seen regularly in China, relaxed and without the controversy that he arouses in other places. His harmony with Beijing is paradoxical: Kissinger sublimated American expansionism, the “realpolitik” zero-sum and the mentality of Cold War that official speeches and the national press criticize on a daily basis.
All those slips have been buried under his speeches on China. When he was active he already warned that after several decades of development it would become an unbeatable rival and in recent years he has warned against “the catastrophe” that awaits the world if the current course is not corrected. They are not particularly clairvoyant or brilliant forecasts, but they contrast with the stubborn frontism that he adopted Donald Trump and Biden continues.
The shift that he imposed in those times when Beijing was seen in Washington with even more aversion than Moscow. Both were united by the fear of Soviet Union. The Cold War still had an uncertain prognosis and the US wanted to prevent a Sino-Soviet bloc. TO Mao Zedong he worried that the growing hostility of his former ideological ally would lead to a nuclear war. Kissinger traveled to Beijing in secret and raided the meeting of Mao and Nixon the following year. “The week that changed the world” or “the greatest week in history since creation,” the US president would later say. The meeting reassured China to focus on the economic opening a few years later and paved the way for its entry into the international community after the expulsion of Taiwan from the HIM.
Crossroad
That context brings its echoes. Washington is walking in the opposite direction today, tenacious in its hostility and ignorant of the priority established half a century ago by Kissinger: to prevent Beijing and Moscow from having better relations with each other than with it. “China and the United States are again at a crossroads and have to make a decision again,” Xi said today, urging Americans like Kissinger to “play a constructive role in putting relations back on track.” The award to those who defend China transcends from his agenda: he met months ago with the millionaire Bill Gates and this week with Rodrigo DutertePhilippine former president.
“No matter how difficult it is, both parties have to treat each other equally and keep in touch. The attempt to isolate or separate from the other is unacceptable”. Kissinger said it today but it can be read any day with minimal differences in the Chinese press. “Washington needs a diplomacy with the wisdom of Kissinger”, Wang Yi has abounded.
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