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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Interviewing Henry Kissinger was a bit like negotiating an ... as he talked about his calculus in playing on Mao’s vision for China, and how he would have handled today’s far more complex ...

Henry Kissinger, the Holocaust survivor and Harvard ... of the Nixon-Kissinger policy was the ground-breaking opening to Mao Zedong's communist China. Washington had long supported the Chinese ...

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 ...

Henry A. Kissinger, a scholar ... Kissinger excluded him from Nixon’s historic meeting with Chinese leader Mao Zedong. That was probably the worst of the repeated humiliations suffered by ...

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.