Former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski has died at the age of 89.
Mr. Brzezinski is a foreign scholar who has had a significant influence on global affairs, both before and after his time at the White House.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, a strategic consultant and national security advisor to U.S. President Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s, died Friday (May 26, U.S. time) at a hospital in Virginia. He was 89 years old.
His daughter, Mika Brzezinski, announced her father's death at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church on Friday.
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| Former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski has died at the age of 89. Photo: NYT. |
Like his predecessor Henry A. Kissinger, Brzezinski is a foreign scholar (he was in Poland, Kissinger in Germany) who has had a significant influence on global affairs, both before and after his time in the White House. In speeches, interviews, and television appearances over several decades, he has addressed six consecutive administrations, including that of Donald J. Trump.
Brzezinski, a Democrat, was one of the few foreign policy experts who warned against and opposed the Iraq War in 2003.
He is credited with normalizing diplomatic relations between the United States and China, achieving the agreement for the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (SALT II), and the signing of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties, which relinquished U.S. control over the Panama Canal after 1999.
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