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Home Front: Politix
Trump to meet with Kissinger Tuesday
2016-12-06
[The Hill] Former secretary of State Henry Kissinger will meet with Donald Trump Tuesday, according to pool reports.

Kissinger, who served under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, met with Trump after he won the presidency and earlier during the campaign.

Kissinger also met with China's Xi Jinping on Friday, which some saw as an attempt to ease concerns there about the incoming Trump administration. The meeting came as Trump took a phone call with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, a move that could cause friction between the U.S. and China.

On Monday, Trump also met with Robert McFarland, who served as Ronald Reagan's national security adviser from 1983 to 1985. Jason Miller, Trump's transition spokesman, told the pool McFarland had a "great discussion with the president-elect’s national security team."
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  If your premise is the US went off-track after the cold war then it makes sense to talk to some of the foreign policy experts from before before the end of the cold war and get their take.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2016-12-06 23:33  

#7  I can understand how Nixon wanted detente with China just like he did with the Soviets. That doesn't mean we have to kowtow to them.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2016-12-06 12:42  

#6  Ref #5: Probably more truth than speculation.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-12-06 10:34  

#5  I have no idea why Trump would meet with this man or Al Gore. Perhaps his motivations will be revealed in due time.

Kissinger is China's emissary to the US. Xi has told Kissinger to lay down the law, and the Donald had better prostrate himself, or else... We'll see soon enough what Trump is made of. Bush was all set to confront China, especially after the EP-3 incident, but was sidetracked by 9/11 and the punitive expeditions into Afghanistan and Iraq that turned into expensive nation-building exercises.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2016-12-06 10:32  

#4  So Kissinger is Boskone?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-12-06 09:06  

#3  He might be meeting them to actually understand what he will be fighting against.

'Know thy enemy'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2016-12-06 08:32  

#2  Gul Dukat: Anyone can blow up a ship. Ha! But to look your enemy in the eye, knowing you'll remember his face for the rest of your life, now that takes... a stomach, much stronger than you'll ever have.

(See also - Romney)
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-12-06 08:20  

#1  If you want to explore the mind spark of the Clinton Foundation, and the chicanery of globalization, look no further than Kissinger Associates model.

I have no idea why Trump would meet with this man or Al Gore. Perhaps his motivations will be revealed in due time.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-12-06 06:36  

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