Henry Kissinger said Mao Zedong was the "most dangerous" leader he met during his political career. Kissinger cited the 90 million deaths under Mao's regime. Kissinger played a pivotal role in ...

By Zachary Woolfe Henry Kissinger, the polarizing diplomat who ... As opera characters, both Nixon and Mao Zedong are faintly ridiculous and faintly noble, singing of their hopes and dreams ...

The president is not the first American leader to disregard the role of morality in foreign policy, but he’s taking things much further than anyone has before.

No other world leaders have the sweep and imagination of Mao and Chou.” It was Henry Kissinger who saw himself as an intermediary far more often than American presidents or secretaries of state ...

Henry Kissinger, a ruthless practitioner of the art ... else being present,” wrote Margaret MacMillan in “Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World. “Dobyrnin entered and left the ...

Henry Kissinger, one of the country's most important foreign policy ... In a conversation at Harvard in 2012, he cited his dealings with Mao Tse Tung, Communist China's legendary but murderous leader.

Henry Kissinger in Paris in 2006.Credit ... Nixon and Mr. Kissinger meeting with Mao Zedong, China’s leader, in Beijing in 1972. Mr. Kissinger had paved the way for a thaw in relations with ...

U.S. President Gerald Ford and daughter Susan watch as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger shakes hands with Mao Zedong during a visit to the chairman’s residence, Dec. 2, 1975. Credit ...

Henry Alfred Kissinger was born in 1923 in Furth ... and in which he referred to Mao Zedong as a “philosopher king”). In the book, Dr Kissinger, who wrote it at the age of 88, explained ...

the daunting combination of titles Henry Kissinger bore in the 1970s. President Donald Trump will, alas, find it harder to do a second “reverse Kissinger” — pulling Russia away from China ...

Behind closed doors, the late Henry Kissinger left no doubt about how little ... the diplomatic opening to China (tens of millions of Mao’s victims be damned). Morality was not a factor here ...

Kissinger's guiding foreign policy principle was that strategic national interests take priority over more idealistic aims, like the promotion of human rights and democracy.