But, for Kissinger’s purposes in this essay, that is not a matter worth considering. The direct cause of China’s epidemic exploding into a global pandemic was the flagrant refusal of the communist authorities to control it immediately or to allow international experts in to investigate. It is unclear whether he had it in mind when he predicted the pandemic’s aftermath: “Many countries’ institutions will be perceived as having failed.” Yet, in the 828 words of his Wall Street Journal article, “ The Coronavirus Pandemic Will Forever Alter the World Order,” Kissinger never mentions China. presidents and, simultaneously, to five supreme leaders of Communist China. It is a revolutionary transition that he played a major, if not dominant, part in arranging as an adviser to eight U.S. He sees the changes as having laid the groundwork for a massive shift in world influence from the United States and the West to the People’s Republic of China. In his two recent books, “ On China” and “ World Order,” Kissinger describes the geopolitical dynamics of the past half-century. America’s oracle of realpolitik, Henry Kissinger, seeks to put the coronavirus pandemic in the context of his ongoing narrative of the changing world order.
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