Trump is no 'reverse Kissinger'

MAGA diplomacy values retaliation against liberal world order, not national security

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to a joint session of Congress on March 4. © Reuters

MASAHIRO OKOSHI

WASHINGTON -- Is U.S. President Donald Trump the "reverse Kissinger"? That seems to be the question on many minds these days in Washington.

In 1971, prominent U.S. diplomat Henry Kissinger, who was then national security adviser to President Richard Nixon, secretly visited China despite no official relations between the countries at the time. The trip was part of his strategy to end the Vietnam War and to court China, isolating the Soviet Union.

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