ifty years ago this week, Henry Kissinger, then the US national security adviser, travelled to Beijing on a secret mission. His task? To reset relations between China and the US, a moment that must rank among the most consequential of the 20th century. It was the event that set the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on a path to global domination and exposed the naivety of the West. The tragedy is that, even now, few seem willing to accept what has unfolded, or why.
