Kissinger's On China - review by Jonathan D. Spence | The New York Review of Books

Kissinger with Mao Tseteng and Zhou Enlai

It is difficult to fathom now - that China was so demonized it was impossible to suggest - and be elected - that we could and should have normal relations with the Peoples Republic.  As is often observed - only Nixon - the red-baiter - could go to China.  Kissinger was his emissary.  The old nemesis of the left and strategist  reflects in his new book On China.- GWC
Kissinger and China by Jonathan D. Spence | The New York Review of Books:

"It is hard to fit Henry Kissinger’s latest book, On China, into any conventional frame or genre. Partly that is because the somewhat self-deprecatory title conceals what is, in fact, an ambitious goal: to make sense of China’s diplomacy and foreign policies across two and a half millennia, and to bring China’s past full circle in order to illuminate the present. In form, the book is highly idiosyncratic, for it is not exactly a memoir, or a monograph, or an autobiography; rather it is part reminiscence, part reflection, part history, and part intuitive exploration"