Compared to who came before and after Kissinger treated Chinese people much more as people. He opened up relations between the US and China at a time that that wasn’t easy to do. Now, he did this to foster the Sino-Soviet split and kill Communism, but Chinese statesmen still see him as much more pragmatic and rational than the Taiwan-arming brinksmen who are currently propelling us towards World War III, and rightly so. He was someone who you could at least talk to and come to an agreement with.
Compared to who came before and after Kissinger treated Chinese people much more as people. He opened up relations between the US and China at a time that that wasn’t easy to do. Now, he did this to foster the Sino-Soviet split and kill Communism, but Chinese statesmen still see him as much more pragmatic and rational than the Taiwan-arming brinksmen who are currently propelling us towards World War III, and rightly so. He was someone who you could at least talk to and come to an agreement with.