The US opening to then-isolated Beijing contributed to China's rise to become a manufacturing powerhouse and the world's largest economy after the United States.
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US President Gerald Ford confers with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 1974. (AFP)
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WASHINGTON - Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who passed away Wednesday at the age of 100, shaped American foreign policy like few others,