China’s Xi Jinping meets with Henry Kissinger in Beijing
HONG KONG - Chinese President Xi Jinping met veteran US diplomat Henry Kissinger in Beijing on Thursday, calling him an "old friend", Chinese state media reported. Xi said the visit by Kissinger, who has been to China more than 100 times and recently turned 100, had special significance because of the two "hundreds." Kissinger, who at the time was national security adviser to President Richard Nixon, made a secret trip to China in 1971 that set the stage for a historic trip by Nixon the following year and the formalization of US-China relations in 1979. .“Not only did it change…
