Xi Tells Kissinger China-U.S. Ties Off To Good Start

                                    Cooperation and Common Interests Are Key

 In an April 24 meeting with former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Dr. Henry Kissinger, China’s newly-elected president, Xi Jinping, said that China-US relations are off to a good start. President Xi stressed common interests, cooperation, exchange and dialog as paramount to good China-US relations. Xi also urged that relations be viewed on a “strategic” level.

 Dr. Kissinger, is a Nobel laureate, and the key architect of the 1972 re-opening of relations between China and the US and of the visit of President Richard Nixon to China. He has traveled to China more than 80 times and has worked to establish, maintain and improve ties between the two countries.

Kissinger, who turns 90 this month published On China in 2011which includes a detailed discussion of the 1970s re-opening process including his meetings with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai.

 (Compiled from People’s Daily and Web sources) (DP)

 Kissinger website: http://www.henryakissinger.com/index.html

 Atlantic Article, In Defense of Henry Kissinger: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/05/the-statesman/309283/