Two days ago, The Wall Street Journal published an interview with Henry Kissinger for the celebration of his 100s birthday.
The title of the story is “Henry Kissinger Surveys the World as He Turns 100”, written by Tunku Varadarajan, on May 26, 2023.
The interesting point of this story is the opinions of the former secretary of state and national security adviser.
Despite his age, Kissinger shows that he remains immersed in the analysis of worldwide politics, and maintains his brains in activity focusing on the key events of the current days.
He says that the world today is a disorder. “Almost all major countries are asking themselves about the basic orientation”.
Kissinger criticizes the French politics that are not running in total coordination with the western world. President Macron's recent visits to Beijing was an act of “autonomy” in a time when the countries of the free world have to try to be careful in the deal with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes.
The former U.S. Secretary of State also says that India and other big countries “do not have a dominant view of what they want to achieve in the world”.
He remarks that today the world is divided by the competition between the U.S. and China.
From the other side, he recognizes that President Xi Jinping is stronger globally than any previous Chinese leader, and he manipulated the two last American presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
Nonetheless, he thinks that the attitude of Joe Biden in the case of Ukraine is right, and the firm support of the Ukrainians put President Putin in the side of the loser.
In the end, Russia will have to leave all the territories it conquered in 2014 with the exception of Crimea. But Kissinger, like other political analysts, thinks that the peninsula and Sevastopol are not linked with Ukraine's history. Theirve ha historic links are with Russia.
In the case of Taiwan, he says that it is “an insoluble problem”. He suggests an intelligent diplomacy from the side of the U.S. to avoid a total confrontation with China.
In summary, Henry Kissinger suggests that the American politicians from both sides of the aisle have to work together with “patriotism” to go ahead with the country, surpass the international “disorder” and continue leading the free world.
SOURCES: The Wall Street Journal, my own think tank.
