The writer and scholar Orville Schell reflects on the legacy of Henry Kissinger.
Henry Kissinger and Zhou Enlai in the Great Hall of the People, 10 November, 1973. Credit: Bettmann via Getty Images
When Henry Kissinger died this week, I reprised an on-stage conversation we’d done together in 2007 to inaugurate the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations. I’d not watched the video in the intervening sixteen years and was curious to remind myself of what Kissinger said back then, and to see which of his utterances had been prescient, and which not.
I’d not gotten far into our conversation before I found myself filled by a triste sense of time irrevocably passing and th
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