Warren Cohen
DISSENT MAGAZINE
HAPPILY MISSING from current rancorous debates over the policies of the Obama administration is the issue of what to do about the People’s Republic of China (PRC). There are, however, strikingly different perspectives on how to manage the relationship among American analysts, in and out of government. Henry Kissinger, along with Richard Nixon, contributed mightily to the opening of relations with the PRC in the early 1970s. His recent book,
On China, is a lengthy justification of what he did then and explanation of his current thoughts on how to avoid conflict with a rising China.
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