Henry Kissinger, the Nobel Prize-winning academic and American diplomat, died at the age of 100 on Wednesday.The “enigmatic realist“, who fled Nazi Germany for the United States as a child, became a US secretary of state and a political celebrity.His work on the diplomatic opening of China to the US and landmark US-Soviet arms deals earned him respect. However, his role in the Vietnam War, his polarising policies in the United States’s bombing of Cambodia from 1969, and his support for anti-communist dictatorships, particularly in Latin America, made him a divisive figure.
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