Henry Kissinger foresees better U.S.-China ties

The world also has many other problems that are "more subtle, more complicated and less direct," and they require U.S.-China cooperation in many ways, Kissinger noted.

"What is needed is a continued development by both leaderships of methods of cooperating and solving the world's problems," he stressed.

Called in China "an old friend of the Chinese people" and one of the few foreigners who have the privilege to be received by all the four generations of Chinese leaders, Kissinger told Xinhua that he now feels China has become an integral part of his life, though he barely knew anything about that remote country when he first visited it.

"China is important for political reasons to America. But for me, it is important because I have come to admire the dedication of the Chinese people and the historic achievement of the Chinese people," said the 85-year-old man with emotion.

(by Xinhua writers Zeng Hu, Wang Jiangang)

Editor:Zhang Ning