When United States President William McKinley advocated high‑tariff protectionism in 1896, he argued squeezing foreign competitors behind a 50% wall of duties would make America richer and safer. That ...

Both Nixon and Kissinger closely followed the dispute between the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China (PRC). When Nixon became president, the USSR-PRC border dispute around Zhenbao ...

Kissinger also pitched the idea to Jared Kushner ... the Helsinki summit earlier this month as “the reverse of the Nixon-China play.” “Russia and China are cozying up to each other and ...

Washington and Beijing must resist the temptation to frame the relationship in purely zero-sum termsBy Euripides L EvriviadesThucydides, the Athenian historian of the 5th century BCE, observed in the ...

Kissinger, who died Wednesday ... relations professor at Fudan University in Shanghai, said. “He helped Nixon open China’s door and promoted a thaw in China-U.S. relations.” ...

We witness the president’s disregard, perhaps ignorance of our NSC by asking Secretary Rubio to take on these two jobs.

The president is not the first American leader to disregard the role of morality in foreign policy, but he’s taking things much further than anyone has before.

Admittedly, the prognosis for Trump is worse than it was for Nixon in the 1970s. The architect of the U.S.-China rapprochement, Kissinger, said at the time that both Washington and Beijing were ...

It is an exchange Kissinger, a committed realist, would never have made. The idea of rapprochement with China originated with Nixon, not with Kissinger. Nixon wrote in Foreign Affairs in 1967, before ...

Fifty years ago, President Richard Nixon and his National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger saw a similar gap between China and Russia. In a first, secret trip in July (another would follow in ...

The unspoken premise of the rationale is that the China engagement policy launched by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger was good for U.S. national security and for world peace. But history has ...

Welcome back to the China In Eurasia briefing ... a play on the historical reference to former U.S. President Richard Nixon's landmark visit to Beijing in 1972, when he defied precedent and ...