What Kissinger told Rudd before flying to China

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“He saw it as a personal responsibility to say, ‘we are not trapped by inescapable historical forces here. We have diplomatic and political agency. And we can therefore change the course of history again, if we so choose’,” Dr Rudd said. “That’s neither a message he directed to the Americans or the Chinese but to both.” Kissinger, who visited China more than 100 times throughout this career, made the trip after relations between Beijing and Washington had blown up after a Chinese spy balloon flew across mainland America. Mr Xi and other top Chinese officials paid tribute to Kissinger on...