EDITORIAL: Kissinger’s death the end of an eraHenry Kissinger, giant of US foreign policy, died on Wednesday last week. His backroom wheeling and dealing is often credited as the only way the US could have normalized relations with China. Nixon and Kissinger did not seem to mind sacrificing the little guy — a recurring theme of Kissinger’s career. For better or worse, China, the US and Taiwan are stuck with the frameworks concocted in back rooms by Kissinger and his contemporaries. Kissinger’s passing marks a transition into a new era, which is an era not served by the rules of a game played decades past.
