Michael Pascoe: Politics is erasing Kissinger’s achievement

The unity of the Bear and the Dragon is a bad sign for the Morrison government and the West, Michael Pascoe writes. Photo: Getty

During the Winter Olympics, the headlines suggested America had succeeded in undoing Henry Kissinger’s Cold War achievement of strategically weakening Russia by engaging with China.

For Kissinger, Europe was always the main game. Thawing the frozen relationship with China was a step along the path of defeating the Soviet Union.