Writing in Foreign Affairs this month, Henry Kissinger opined that, when it comes to the future of Sino-American relations, “conflict is a choice, not a necessity.” Those are some serious words from one of history’s all-time realists, but more important than his analysis is the fact that he even felt the need to issue that public statement regarding these two ultimately codependent superpowers. A trusted part-time adviser to President Barack Obama, Kissinger knows he has the president’s ear on China, the target of this administration’s recently announced strategic military “pivot” toward East Asia.
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Monday, April 9, 2012 at 9:28AM 
Reader Comments (1)
"Remembering how tumultuously class-conscious that era was for our nation, you’d think America might evince more caution in its China rhetoric."
Self-awareness seems to be in short supply amongst political types. 'You'd' also think folks in Washington would have thought about how our own justice system works before shoving a centralized police force down Iraq and Afghanistan's respective throats. Or that folks in London would have contemplated their sometimes-stormy relationship with their own monarchy before appointing Hejazi puppet kings for the Fertile Crescent countries. Or . . .