Former secretary of state Henry Kissinger met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Defense Minister Li Shangfu in Beijing last week amid heightened tensions between the United States and China.
The 100-year-old Kissinger is revered in China for having engineered the opening of relations between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Washington under former president Richard Nixon during the Cold War in the early 1970s.
Mr. Kissinger held a meeting with Mr. Xi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on July 20, but no official statement was released by the U.S. government as it was considered a private visit by a citizen….