50 years after Kissinger's secret trip to China, does US have same ability to correct its mistakes?

China-US Photo: GT Friday marks the 50th anniversary of former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger’s secret visit to China. Back in 1971, the US was in a white-hot rivalry against the Soviet Union, and it got bogged down in Vietnam because of its own mistakes. Washington wanted to pull itself out of the dilemma and meanwhile it wished to change the world’s power structure by getting closer to China. It was a time when the US was under the Nixon administration, who appointed politicians as knowledgeable as Kissinger and who did what was right for the US. At that…