Keeping in mind China’s grand strategic vulnerability at the moment, remembering the economic blackmail that the US is exerting to deter it from violating the anti-Russian sanctions, and considering their shared interests in reversing (or at least decelerating) those newly unleashed processes that are poised to bring an end to the bi-multipolar order from which they both benefit the most, a high degree of credence can thus be extended to Kissinger’s prediction of an improvement in Chinese-US ties.