Henry Kissinger was the chief apologist for a brutal Chinese Communist regime

After leaving office, America’s most famous diplomat led two lives. By day he was the gravelly voiced dean of American diplomacy, ponderously pontificating on America’s role in the world. By night he was the head of Kissinger Associates, a firm that he set up in 1982 to capitalize on the connections that he had made while serving as Secretary of State. The most lucrative of those connections was China. China’s leaders were grateful to Kissinger not only for ending its diplomatic isolation, but also for helping to legitimate what was arguably the most brutal regime in human history. Read more…