BEIJING Sept 8: Hie United States should abandon its adversarial stance towards China which has led to avoidable disputes in bilateral relations, former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger was quoted as saying today, reports AFP

Kissinger, who as Richard Nixon s security advisor se cretly visited China in 1971 to pave the way for a rapprochement between Washington and Beijing, said a lesson could be learned from that particular page in hMtory

If wr could cooperate then It should be a lot easier to coop erate from now on press report* quoted Kissinger as say Ing before he let! Beijing after attending an International symposium In the capital