Henry Kissinger is a titan of US politics. As national security adviser and then secretary of state, under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, he brokered detente with the Soviet Union and negotiated a breakthrough presidential summit to China in 1972. His successors have long sought his expertise in foreign policy, especially in periods of fraught diplomacy. Dr. Kissinger spoke to “The Economist Asks” podcast about one of President Joe Biden’s most pressing foreign-policy concerns: how to deal with an increasingly aggressive China.
By The Economist
