100 Historical Stories That Unlock Teenage Wisdom

Chapter 83 10 Kissinger asks to escape

Chapter 810 Kissinger asked to get away

——Learn to kick the ball back. What should I do if I don’t know how to answer or can’t answer some questions?It is better to kick the "ball" back to the opponent.

In late May 1972, the United States and the Soviet Union held a summit meeting. At one o'clock in the morning on the 5th, Kissinger, the special assistant for national security affairs of the United States, was in a hotel in Moscow, and introduced the situation of the meeting between the United States and the Soviet Union on the signing of the four agreements on the limitation of strategic arms to the accompanying American journalists.Kissinger revealed with a smile:
"The Soviet Union is producing missiles at a rate of about 250 a year. Gentlemen, if I'm caught here as a spy, we know who to blame."

The all-pervasive American journalists quickly took up the conversation, asking about the military secrets of the United States:

"What about us? How many submarine-launched missiles do we have with MIRVs? How many Minuteman missiles have MIRVs?"

Kissinger shrugged: "I don't know exactly how many 'Minuteman' missiles are being deployed with multiple warheads. As for the submarines, my difficulty is that I know the number, but I don't know if it is classified."

The reporter hurriedly said, "It's not confidential."

Of course, Kissinger will not say the number of US submarine-launched missiles equipped with multiple guided multiple warheads.He asked back:
"Since it's not confidential, how much do you say it is?"

The reporter didn't expect that he would encounter such a rhetorical question, and he was immediately dumbfounded, so he had to laugh it off with a "hehe".

If it is not confidential, then it is public. Since everyone knows it, and of course the reporter is no exception, let the reporter answer this difficult question by himself.When the reporter laughed "hey", Kissinger easily got away.

Wisdom Interpretation:

It was originally the reporter who asked Kissinger, but in the end it was Kissinger who asked back and kicked the ball to the opponent.When we look at the answers given by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, we often leave questions to the other party.This method can not only protect oneself, but also prevent others from taking advantage of it, counterattack and turn defeat into victory. This is worth learning and learning from.

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