Channel 4 News published this video item, entitled “Henry Kissinger dies aged 100 – a look at one of the US’s most controversial diplomats” – below is their description.
He was one of the world’s most powerful and most controversial diplomats – celebrated and reviled in equal measure.
Former US secretary of State Henry Kissenger, the man who shaped America’s Cold War policy – has died at the age of a hundred.
To his admirers, he was an arch pragmatist who made nice with Mao’s China and helped prepare America’s exit from the disastrous war in Vietnam.
His critics branded him a war criminal, who ordered the carpet bombing of Laos and helped overthrow the democratically elected Allende government in Chile.
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