Henry Alfred Kissinger turned 100 on May 27 of this year. Once a teenage refugee from Nazi Germany, for many decades an adviser to presidents and an avatar of American realpolitik, he's managed to reach the century mark while still evidently retaining all his marbles. That those marbles remain hard and cold is no surprise.
A couple of months after that 100th birthday, he traveled to China, as he had first done secretly in 1971 when he was still President Richard Nixon's national security adviser. There — in contrast to the tepid reception recently given to U.S. officials like Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and special presidential envoy John Kerry — Kissinger was welcomed with full honors by Chinese President Xi Jinping and other dignitaries.
