6. How did you come to involve Pakistan in re-establishing contact with China?
Henry Kissinger: It's giving us too much credit to say we chose Pakistan. We talked to a number of countries. In fact we first talked to some communist countries like Rumania. But the Chinese didn't trust communists. And we also talked to the Pakistanis. It wasn't me it was President Nixon who, on a trip through Pakistan in summer of ’69, arranged this with the Yahya Kahn and then nothing happened for about a year.
