Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger said that tensions between Washington and Beijing could escalate into an armed conflict.
“I believe that China, given the power it has, is a dangerous potential adversary,” he said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
“We have two societies with global historical views, but different cultures that compete with each other,” he said.
Kissinger stressed that a ‘problem’ in the South China Sea could serve as a reason for the conflict. In his opinion, if the parties do not find ways to resolve ‘on the principle of freedom of the high seas’, then clashes cannot be avoided.
He believes that the possible conflict could threaten ‘the destruction of civilisation’.
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