Henry Kissinger, sometime Harvard professor, President Nixon’s Secretary of State, and 1973 Nobel Peace Prize winner, says he has been to China ‘more than fifty times’. Of these visits, the most famous was his secret trip to Beijing in 1971, paving the way for Nixon’s journey the year after when Mao Zedong, feeble but still firing on most mental cylinders, laid out his ‘thought’ while Nixon and Kissinger sycophantically praised him. Thereafter, Kissinger went to China a few more times on official business, including by invitation from Deng Xiaoping in 1989 after the Tiananmen killings, when China–US relations were sagging badly.

Literary Review

Jun 2011

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Jonathan Mirsky

Sweet and Sour

Case Closed?

They Have Been at the Core of Great Events

Tutorials from a Transvestite

Dog Days

What’s Behind the Blue Door?

Communist Poster Boy

Invasive Procedures

Flow Country

A Right Way to Remember?

Girls Allowed

Dig for Victory

Crossing the Yalu

Dining at Lizard’s Thicket

Escape from Entebbe

Wild West

Sage Government

Mission Impossible

One Man and His Lama

A Sorority of Character

Stealing the Crown’s Jewel

Tale From Tiananmen

The Shanghai Beat

Rebel Province

Picture The Revolution