Tag: Henry Kissinger

• Thursday, November 30th 2023 - 10:15 UTC

  Henry Kissinger dies aged 100

  

  Former US Secretary of State and 1973 Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry Kissinger died Wednesday at the age of 100 at his home in Connecticut, it was reported. He epitomized his country's foreign policy in the second half of the 20th century and remained active throughout his life. In July this year, he made a surprise visit to Beijing to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping.

• Tuesday, November 17th 2020 - 08:47 UTC

  US and China must find basis of cooperation, or risk sliding to “a catastrophe”, warns Kissinger

  

  The United States and China must find some basis for cooperation or risk sliding into a catastrophe “comparable to World War I”, former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger said at a global forum on Monday, delivering a stark warning on the state of ties between the two superpowers.

• Wednesday, September 26th 2018 - 09:11 UTC

  Conciliatory message from Beijing to the Trump administration as bitter trade war increases

  

  China and the United States can compete but should not view each other with a Cold War mentality and should avoid falling into a zero-sum game trap, the Chinese government's top diplomat said, amid deteriorating ties between the superpowers.

• Thursday, January 19th 2017 - 08:10 UTC

  CIA has released on line 13 million pages of declassified documents

  

  About 13 million pages of declassified documents from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have been released online. The records include UFO sightings and psychic experiments from the Stargate program, which has long been of interest to conspiracy theorists.

• Thursday, October 2nd 2014 - 06:03 UTC

  Kissinger wanted to smash Cuba in 1976 for its intervention in Angola

  

  US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger drew up plans to “smash Cuba” with air strikes nearly 40 years ago, government papers obtained by researchers show. He was angered by Cuba's 1976 military intervention in Angola and was considering retaliation if Cuban forces were deployed elsewhere in Africa.