MOSCOW, March 26 – RIA Novosti. The second cold war will be more dangerous than the first. declaration former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

Asked whether a second cold war would be more dangerous than the first, Kissinger said in an interview with the Spanish newspaper Mundo.

The former foreign minister pointed out that a new cold war could begin between China and the United States. Kissinger believes that both countries have comparable economic resources, which was not the case during the First Cold War. According to him, Beijing and Washington are now enemies and “must not wait until the PRC is westernized”.

Earlier, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in his meeting with Kissinger, said that the start of a “new cold war” between China and the United States would be a disaster for the whole world. He stressed that “Washington should return to a rational and pragmatic policy towards China, return to the right path of respecting the three joint Sino-US declarations, and maintain the political basis of Sino-US relations.”