The Harvard University professor and diplomat earned praise for his role in opening China to the West, bringing about détente with the Soviet Union and initiating arms-control agreements under Republican Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
Henry Kissinger, the child refugee who rose to become US secretary of state and defined American foreign policy during the 1970s with his strategies to end the Vietnam War and contain communist countries, has died. He was 100.
He died on Wednesday at his home in Connecticut, Kissinger Associates said in a statement.
