Henry Kissinger explains how to avoid world war three
America and China must learn to live together. They have less than ten years
IN BEIJING THEY have concluded that America will do anything to keep China down. In Washington they are adamant that China is scheming to supplant the United States as the world’s leading power. For a sobering analysis of this growing antagonism—and a plan to prevent it causing a superpower war—visit the 33rd floor of an Art Deco building in midtown Manhattan, the office of Henry Kissinger.
This article appeared in the Briefing section of the print edition under the headline “How to prevent a third world war”
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