dr. kissinger is with us tonight dr. kissinger was one of the pioneers in normalizing the relationship between the two countries, and he was more lucky than most of the chinese people present tonight because he had the chance to meet the chairman, to meet premier chou which read left deeply, and he had the opportunity to meet with mr. don shopping as well as president hu jintao. so he witnessed an experience from the whole process of china's reform and opening up how this policy has been advanced and how it has been implemented and how great changes have taken place in china, so dr. kissinger is an eye witness of china and most of the friends here tonight also witnessed parts and sections of china's reform and opening up the process including secretary geithner, who was riding a bicycle and beijing in 1981, and including his father. on the internet people sometimes talk about my relationship sometimes basing on one of the kunkel secretary geithner. [laughter] because his father, peter, and was the chief representatives on

dr. kissinger. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: he together with president nixon opened the door of relations between china and the united states and he urge d urged -- as one of the older generations and he contributed greatly to the growth of china-u.s. relations. he's now in his 80s but he's still traveling back and forth between china and the united states. it is fair to say that in my heart he is an expert in diplomacy and international relations. he's a symbol of wisdom. Ñoó chinese relations. no one knows better than he does of a bilateral relationship and it will be difficult to find another one. so i admire him, and i have learned a great deal from him. he said he has learned things from me, but i think i am flattered. i'm humbled by his kind words whenever i come to the council, one, it is possible that i would stop in new york and call on dr. kissinger. i cannot do that at this time because we are flying back to china. maybe next time i'll come to new york to go see dr. kissinge

dr. kissinger my credentials and say he's all right. >> charlie: he didn't have to, i'm sure he knew who with you were. >> yes. >> charlie: and you spend time interviewing him. >> many hours. >> charlie: and the idea was you would write a definitive biography. >> i heard he many many archives and i said i can't do this now and my wife said you're crazy, he's the most interesting man in the world. i said could you allow me to do one year and he said what year and i said 1973. to my amazement his face lit up and he said lets do it. >> charlie: why did you choose 1973. >> was one personal and one historic. it was the most important years in history. not only in american history but world history and all the things that happened from yom kippur to the -- >> charlie: tell us what '73 was crucial. in 1972 president nixon was re-elected and looks like henry kissinger and richard nixon wore going to be able to rewrite the world. >> and things went progressively wrong and what happened was watergate and that bedeviled the whole of the year and ending in nixon's resignation and then the very impor

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