Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger visited China this week for meetings with senior officials and was told that any Western effort to transform China or encircle the country was 'impossible.'
Wang Yi, director of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Foreign Affairs Office, said in a statement that Mr. Kissinger is one of China’s “old friends” who played an “irreplaceable role” in launching U.S.-China relations during the 1970s.
For several decades after Mao Zedong died, China under Deng Xiaoping moderated its communist system and pursued private-sector reforms that resulted in large-scale development and the creation of the world’s second largest economy after the U.S. “The U.S. should have a correct strategic judgment,” the Defense Ministry quoted him as saying in a statement on the meeting. “The future of our world will be better only when emerging countries and developed countries live in peace and develop together.”
Mr. Kissinger urged renewed communications between the U.S. and Chinese militaries, which Beijing has put on hold. Gen. Li turned down a meeting with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to protest U.S. sanctions on the defense minister regarding Russian arms sales. As to meeting with the sanctioned Gen. Li, Mr. Miller said, “We would object to anyone violating our sanctions, but it is not my understanding that a meeting violates those sanctions. In fact, we have said that we believe our own secretary of defense could meet with the sanctioned defense minister, and that would be appropriate to do.”
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