Far fetched idea it may seem today but @WhiteHouse will do well to do China on China by promoting Russia, India and Vietnam as an alternate to China....Europe cant survive without Chinese supply chain & u need an alternative.....encircling China can change the global order....
Dear @WhiteHouse Nixon-Kissinger policy to facilitate so called peaceful rise of China need to be done away with .....sooner the better for global world that u dump that evil theory that u practised for decades starting from 1970s.......
And India of PM @narendramodi will do well to play the broker between @realDonaldTrump and @KremlinRussia_E : dismantalisation of China cannot be brought about by one country......the problem of China is global, hence solution too needs to be global....
When @WhiteHouse of Nixon assigned Kissinger the task of devising its China policy, Kissinger was busy working on Soviets- Europe etc --much of his initial views of China owe to his tutoring by Stapleton Roy. With the benefit of hindsight; it wont be preposterous to claim that ..
.. Kissinger allowed his own exp & goals vis-à-vis Europe, Soviets & then evolving Cold war situation to color his China policy. So enamored, Kissinger was by ancient history of China that only flaw in Mao's model he could found, was its governance model...not a commie dictator!
It is not a secret as to how Kissinger's famous trip to meet Zhou-en-Lai on 9-7-71 was a result of painstaking "brokering" work of Yahya Khan & which Kissinger repaid when he famously said-"to all hands-don’t squeeze Yahya @ this time” upon being asked by Nixon abt 71 war stance!
It was that debt of Yahya Khan, accumulated by Kissinger between 1969 and 1971, that shaped up @StateDept romantic affair with Pakistan and its establishment...saving that for some other day....let us go back to the China plan that Kissinger helped devise of Nixon administration
Much of that China plan & its dev had a lot to do with Kissinger's world view of post Vietnam Asia....much differently to that of Nixon's in 1967 when he advocated a diff view-in Vietnam,he saw learning & suggested US to not look at the continent from one eyed view of Vietnam
"A small country on the rim of the continent has filled the screen of our minds; but it does not fill the map"- said Nixon while advocating the need for US to look at Asia with practically working solutions rather than doctrines and theories......in Asian disdain for Peking
yes in Peking (as China was called then instead of current in us Beijing) the view of then Asia more or less converged as everyone saw in that country a danger to its existence;but so profound was the impact of Kissinger on the finally laid out Nixon-Kissinger plan, that Nixon's
own views of Asia & more importantly the need to contain China was done away with & Kissinger's strategic gamble to instead work on the global & more importantly US's embrace of China by changing the outlook of China, became the new norm in global affair-practiced even to-date!
As mentioned above, so enamored Kissinger was of China's ancient history that per him, only (perhaps biggest flaw) within China was its governance principles & he brushed aside Nixon's view of China as a state nurturing its fantasies, cherishing its hates & threatening neighbours
Irrespective of how much Kissinger or what his fans say today; by not lapping up Nixon's worldview beautifully enunciated here https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v01/d3 -Kissinger ended up architecting, laying foundation & even constructing whole edifice (via his control of strategic mind-space)
…......rich and tall but ugly looking edifice- called China- which represents the evil designs, virulent hate for anything ex-china & their evil expansionist & hegemonic ambitions to achieve fantasies & hate that it has nurtured and nourished through a strange mix of complexes
….the inferiority complexes vis-à-vis west and open societies and superiority complexes against its much peaceful neighbors riding their hate for their democratic structures......that Kissinger's gamble helped only China was evident from the fact that the offshoot of his..
policy of global embrace of China-Globalisation-changed everyone but China. 50 years ago, @WhiteHouse of Nixon embraced China, with Henry Kissinger acting as the Mayor of Italian town who asked Italians to hug Chinese - disregarding the Corona Virus that was coming with them
Ironically, virus reached Italy, thanks to the seamless connection between Lombardi region & Wuhan, that only became possible;thanks to the globalization-(result of the next offshoot of Kissinger plan.What happened in Italy and later across the world- we all watching in real time
All the so called gains of globalization were lost in few weeks- more people lost jobs in @realDonaldTrump run US in past 4 weeks than the jobs that were created in post 2008 America....and this story is being repeated in geography after geography....& who is helping world today?
Well it is none other than China- the country where the disease and the virus originated......A connoisseur & admirer of Chinese history and culture of several centuries and his fans would do well to remember that most of the pandemics world over had originated in China only...
Correct Kissinger was wn he said "wn u conduct foreign policy,u have to weigh-objectives that can be reached in the shortterm against the objectives that require evolution. And the Chinese hv conducted their own affairs for '000s of yrs”- wish he had evaluated their negatives too
How prophetic (but ignorant of real meaning) Kissinger was when he said "we had an obligation, for preservation of peace & stability & not to transform China such a goal that it would stop everything else.”- yes China DID NOT change; only target of world's punitive measures did!
50 yrs ago, only China's neighbors were scared of their hegemony and expansionist agenda; today tidal waves of their hate and hegemonic expansions have engulfed & swamped countries as far as Africa & Latin America...Kissinger u failed us, big time-will u pls spare globe now!
The primary objective of Kissinger plan (in his own words) was to-
~shield China from possible Soviet attack
~to isolate Taiwan
~to open China to development & investment; in return US was to get-
~help in exist from Vietnam
~reduce anti US hate in China
~better ties with Soviets
Kissinger's dishonesty gets evident every time he proclaims success of his policy by the fact how his policy helped US seed favorable view of American policy, within the minds of both Americans as well as Soviet public...….. his open embrace of China to achieve that objective...
...helped expand Chinese circle of hate fm its immediate neighborhood to every regime that attempts to challenge its hegemony.... in post corona world, China is not even sparing individuals- who all are being attacked by their bots- taking order from another Zhao- Zhao Mo Lijian
Going back to where i started it from- Kissinger and how he let his own world view, get better of Nixon's and presided over the policy of embracing China in 1971- always played a role that was dubious & duplitcious by all means.....
After Nixon's departure; on his insistence, Gerard Ford continued with Kissinger as his Secretary of State....he left office after Carter's ascension to Presidency. He took up professor's role-which hasnt changed even today but now as personal professor of various world leaders
Principle of propriety are, for sure, an anathema to this much loved & equally hated advocate of realpolitik or suffice to say that he could hide his cunnigness smartly and gave it name realpolitiks or diplomacy....else what will u call formation of Kissinger Associates in 1982!
Kissinger Associates- formed in 1982 to advise international firms or strategic partners for investment opportunities & on gov relations, was primarily focussed on China. What is remarkable is the list of its prominent employees and the kind of influential role they played
Not just individuals but his firm's circle of influence included firms like APCO and Blackstone amongst the most prominent names..individuals like Eagleburger, Timothy Geithner, Paul Bremmer, Bill Richardson were its other prominent employees b4 n after their leading position
When Prez Bush senior wanted to send his reps to make his famous outreach to China after Tianneman massacre, the two men he chose- Brent Snowcraft (his NSA) & Lawrence Eagleburger (his deputy Sec of State) both were ex employees of Kissinger Associates only...
Although Kissinger termed attempts to link of his views on China to his business interests as McCarthyism but then just as in business, there r no strange coincidences....how can there be any in the field of international diplomacy- which is nothing but an extension of business
Of several such strange coincidences that Kissinger or his associates were part of, another one is a curious case of China Ventures that was to see investments by China International Trust & Investment Corp but had to be shelved as WSJ broke that news and then Tiannenman happd
Kissinger kept going back to China again n again-as guest of Chinese leaders or as part of biz delegatio-infact 1st man Deng met after quitting off was Kissinger only -10 Nov 1988 was the date & 1st people he met on his return were Bush n his security team- strange coincidences!
Only contant in US- China bonhomie over past 49 years is is Henry Kissinger-architect of the policy that made China what it is today....strange coincidences and Kissinger have such knack of bumping into one a other with remarkable frequency that there is nothing strange abt then
The K- club by world's most influential and first private citizen of the GLOBALISED world is the most influential of all the clubs .....and its leader is Henry Kissinger- the one man army who made China what it is today...personal exp is that not everone do things for moneysake!
That China won a WW without even firing one bullet is no overstatement....every country is down to its knees- even Prez @realDonaldTrump cant do much only one to be blamed for this is Kissinger & how he conceptualised,implemented & defended his China policy-world is paying today!
Dear Prez @realDonaldTrump if u really want to eradicate the disease that China represents- literally & figuratively- then pls dump ur Kissinger designed China policy to filthiest dustbin of @WhiteHouse & deal with them as u dealt with USSR...let the new cold war begin- so be it!
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