History
On China
Henry Kissinger
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Kissinger reads two millennia of Chinese statecraft — and his own negotiations with Mao and Zhou — to explain how Beijing thinks about power, and how the U.S. and China might avoid conflict.
A history of Chinese diplomacy and strategic culture, and a memoir of the author's role in the 1970s U.S.-China opening, arguing China approaches statecraft with a distinctive long-game patience.
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