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Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met with Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu in Beijing on Tuesday, his first known visit to the capital city in four years. Li

Neither the US nor China can afford the price of treating each other as enemy, said the former US official. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met with Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu in Beijing on Tuesday, his first known visit to the capital city in four years.

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President Vladimir Putin may struggle to hold on to power if the war in Ukraine forces Russia to abandon military aggression and accept a peace deal with Europe, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said.

“On the current trajectory of relations, I think some military conflict is probable,” Kissinger said in an interview with Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait, when asked about the possibility that China would invade Taiwan. “But I also think the current trajectory of relations must be altered.”

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

“Europe will become more stable, the world will become more stable when Russia accepts the fact that it cannot conquer Europe," he said.

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