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Kissinger’s Skilled Eye on China, Then and Now

Kissinger’s Skilled Eye on China, Then and Now

June 26, 2011 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Nearing age 90 now, Henry Kissinger has set down in a new book his extraordinary challenge four decades ago, when he brought together Mao Tse-tung, the giant of the peasant revolution, with the dedicated anti-Communist,Richard M. Nixon.  On China (Penguin…

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