Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger Warns Biden To Open Communications With China Or Risk A Catastrophe On Scale Of WWI

On November 22, 2019, President Xi Jinping met with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger of the United States (US) at the Great Hall of the People.

Bloomberg: Kissinger Warns Biden of U.S.-China Catastrophe on Scale of WWI

(Bloomberg) -- Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said the incoming Biden administration should move quickly to restore lines of communication with China that frayed during the Trump years or risk a crisis that could escalate into military conflict.

“Unless there is some basis for some cooperative action, the world will slide into a catastrophe comparable to World War I,” Kissinger said during the opening session of the Bloomberg New Economy Forum. He said military technologies available today would make such a crisis “even more difficult to control” than those of earlier eras.

“America and China are now drifting increasingly toward confrontation, and they’re conducting their diplomacy in a confrontational way,” the 97-year-old Kissinger said in an interview with Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait. “The danger is that some crisis will occur that will go beyond rhetoric into actual military conflict.”

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WNU Editor: I do not think the former US Secretary of State Kissinger really understands and/or appreciates on how aggressive Chinese foreign policy has become in the past few years. I would say this change started less than a decade ago with the building of military installations in the South China Sea, and since then Beijing has only escalated its border disputes with almost every country in the region. I have said it more than once on this blog that China is looking for a fight, and having Biden "opening communications" with Beijing is not going to change that.