Henry Kissinger 1923-2023: Giant of statecraft molded post-war US history • FRANCE 24 English

Brilliant, abrasive and ruthlessly ambitious, Henry Kissinger towered over post-World War II US foreign policy like no one else and shaped a fateful new course for the world’s relationship with China. As secretary of state to presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, Kissinger was a master tactician whose intellectual gifts were begrudgingly acknowledged even by his many critics, who nevertheless faulted his disregard for human rights and democracy in the Vietnam War and elsewhere. FRANCE 24’s Chief Foreign Editor Rob Parsons tells us more.