But Kissinger promised Zhou that the United States would not support two Chinese governments (one in Beijing, one in Taipei); that it would also not agree to a solution of “one China, ...

Henry Kissinger, diplomat who helped to reshape the world, dies at 100. ... Chinese leader Xi Jinping hosted him in the same building where Zhou had met him 52 years earlier.

Kissinger’s efforts relied on using Pakistan as an intermediary—though he also tried Romania and mutual contacts of China’s Embassy in Paris—and in December 1970 Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai ...

There, Kissinger and Zhou plotted Nixon's ground-breaking trip to China, which took place in February 1972, a visit that Nixon called "a week that changed the world." ...

Kissinger, who died Wednesday at 100, was one of America’s most powerful diplomats. ... when he broached the possibility of establishing U.S.-China relations and met then-Premier Zhou Enlai. ...

Kissinger’s Strategy: Befriend China to Isolate Russia. ... [Zhou En-lai] joined the Communist Party in France in 1920, long before there was a Chinese Communist Party.

State media outlets hailed him as “China’s old friend.” On Chinese social media, people said his death marked the end of an era. They recalled his last visit to the country, in July, at age 100.

Kissinger and Zhou Enlai, the first premier of the People’s Republic of China, toasting at the end of a state banquet in Beijing, in November 1973.

The Chinese president and former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger met in the symbolic Villa No. 5, where Mr. Kissinger first met with a Chinese leader, Premier Zhou Enlai, 52 years ago.

Nixon insisted that Kissinger get terms better protecting South Vietnam from future aggression. But Nixon's negotiating flexibility was limited by the demands of Democrats in Congress to end the war.

Henry Kissinger, the most powerful U.S. diplomat of the Cold War era, who helped Washington open up to China, forge arms control deals with the Soviet Union and end the Vietnam War, but who was ...

Henry Kissinger, the polarizing diplomat who died on Wednesday at 100, received copious distinctions over his long career. But one of the most unusual — an honor that was also damning — came ...