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Pete Millwood 米维德 Profile picture
Pete Millwood 米维德
@PeteMillwood
Historian of US-China relations | 📙: Improbable Diplomats (@cambUP_History, 2022) | Lecturer in East Asian History @UniMelb | PhD from @OxfordHistory
Nov 30, 2023 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
Kissinger is dead. He set US China policy for the late Cold War and beyond. Only in the last 5 years have we seen the full consequences — and costs — of his influence.

A thread 🧵 Image We should recognise what Nixon and Kissinger (in that order) achieved.

Ignoring China for two decades hadn't worked. Rapprochement helped win the Cold War and was the foundation for the rebuilding of the most important bilateral relationship in the world today.