News Desk :
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warned on Friday that the United States could be ‘on the edge of war’ with Russia and China, as the Biden administration grapples with its historically low relations with the two autocratic regimes.
Without naming names, the 99-year-old statesman suggested that American leaders have ‘trouble defining a direction’ in today’s political climate, which he believes has contributed to rising global tensions, reports Mail Online.
‘We are at the edge of war with Russia and China on issues which we partly created,’ Kissinger told the Wall Street Journal.
‘All you can do is not to accelerate the tensions and to create options, and for that you have to have some purpose.’
He described a global order on which rests the balance of moral and geopolitical stability, in which countries acknowledge each other’s sometimes opposing values but keeping them separate from the negotiating table.
But Kissinger told the Journal that US leaders and voters today have trouble separating ‘personal relationships with the adversary’
from maintaining stable diplomatic talks. ‘I think that the current period has a great trouble defining a direction,’ Kissinger said.
‘It’s very responsive to the emotion of the moment.’
He suggested that leaders in today’s American political climate have trouble separating personal relationships from diplomatic links
His warning comes just days after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s controversial trip to Taiwan, which was vehemently opposed by China’s government as a violation of the US’s longstanding One China Policy.
