‘We will never forget our old friend’

Centenarian statesman Henry Kissinger flew to Beijing for a surprise meeting yesterday with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Beijing bureau chief for The Economist David Rennie tells The World’s host Marco Werman that Kissinger is China’s ideal American diplomat, because of his “ultra-realist” worldview.

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