Henry Kissinger’s Century: From US-China Tension to the Fate of Russia

US Special envoy Henry Kissinger meets with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai in July 1971 in Beijing. 

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The horrors of war remain at the front of Henry Kissinger’s mind as he surveys the world shortly after his 100th birthday.