With the rise of the PRC and the strengthening of its power, more and more attention is drawn to the emerging significant change in the balance of forces on the world stage and the associated strengthening of its geopolitical rivalry with the United States. The question of the current and future relationship between the traditional pole of power and the challenging geopolitical "upstart" is being asked by many American experts - both government and private*. The opinion of Henry Kissinger, one of the patriarchs of American diplomacy and the architects of the US - China rapprochement in the early 1970s, who to this day remains in the camp of Washington's "pigeons" who advocate a pragmatic, generally calm and relatively positive approach to the PRC, has considerable weight. Many of Kissinger's thoughts on this topic are included in his book On China, a solid work with rich material on the development of US - China relations after the formation of the PRC, including declassified conversations with Chinese leaders and personal impressions of the former US national security adviser as a direct participant in them. At the same time, he does not hide his sympathies for Maoist China and antipathy to the Soviet Union. Kissinger clearly has a hint of nostalgia for the days of the semi-public anti-Soviet alliance between Washington and Beijing, which ultimately turned into a headache for many American strategists. The book was translated into Russian by Astrel Publishing house in December 2012.1 It is described in an article by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Senior Researcher of the Institute of the Far East of the Russian Academy of Sciences V. I. Trifonov. US-China relations Keywords:, Henry Kissinger, the book "About China" V. I. TRIFONOV Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Institute of the Far East of the Russian Academy of Sciences Henry Kissinger's work on China is built in a geopolitical context, from the point of view o ... Читать далее