{"id":121652,"date":"2011-06-08T21:27:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T04:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=121652"},"modified":"2011-06-08T21:27:24","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T04:27:24","slug":"kissinger-u-s-china-ties-hold-promise-and-peril","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2011\/06\/kissinger-u-s-china-ties-hold-promise-and-peril\/","title":{"rendered":"Kissinger: U.S.-China Ties Hold Promise And Peril"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/06\/08\/137061512\/henry-kissinger-us-china-ties-hold-promise-and-peril\"><strong>NPR interviews Henry Kissinger <\/strong><\/a>about his new book,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26index%3Dblended%26link_code%3Dqs%26field-keywords%3Don%2520china%2520kissinger%26sourceid%3DMozilla-search%23&#038;tag=chinadigitalt-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957\">On China<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=chinadigitalt-20&#038;l=ur2&#038;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, and about his perspective on U.S.-China relations over the past 40 years (Listen to the interview <a href=\"javascript:NPR.Player.openPlayer(137061512,%20137061503,%20null,%20NPR.Player.Action.PLAY_NOW,%20NPR.Player.Type.STORY,%20'0')\">here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHenry Kissinger, who went on to serve as secretary of state under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, was Nixon&#8217;s national security adviser in 1972. 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