Way back in July 1971, Mr Henry Kissinger, the national security adviser to US president Richard Nixon, travelled on a secret mission to Beijing after feigning illness during a visit to Pakistan. America's decision to play the so-called "China card" during the Cold War with the Soviet Union set the stage for transforming the US-China relationship, integrating communist China into the global economy, restructuring great power relations, and reshaping the Asian regional order.
Could a potential detente between the United States and Russia bring about something similar in world politics today?
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