Ukraine LIVE: Henry Kissinger warns US at ‘edge of war with Russia’ – and China is next

THE US is “at the edge of war with Russia”, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warned while pointing at China as the next big challenge for Washington.

By Teresa Gottein Martinez, Rosie Jempson

21:10, Sun, Aug 14, 2022 | UPDATED: 21:13, Sun, Aug 14, 2022

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In claims aimed at denouncing the Biden Administration’s inability to separate “personal relationships with the adversary” from breaking diplomatic stability, Mr Kissinger said: “I think that the current period has a great trouble defining a direction.” Without directly naming US President Joe Biden, the 99-year-old told the Wall Street Journal that the White House’s historically low relations with Moscow and Beijing were a result of leaders being “responsive to the emotion of the moment”. Saying the US had “partly created” Russia’s issues with Ukraine and China’s with Taiwan, Mr Kissinger added: “All you can do is not to accelerate the tensions and to create options, and for that, you have to have some purpose.”

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