Well informed commentators talk about the start of a new Cold War. For years, officials and historians have dismissed the idea that a new Cold War was emerging between the United States and China. Some structural similarities indeed exist with the 1945-1991 standoff, when the Soviet Union was pitted against the US. A new “cold war” has become almost a default description of the current rivalry between the US and China. First, U.S.-China rivalry is between the world’s two most powerful states, one a liberal democracy and the other avowedly communist. A “new cold war” has become almost a default description of the current rivalry between the United States and China. The new Cold War launched by the West against China and Russia is escalating by the day. There are six clear parallels with the Cold War. The deepening cold war between the US and China will be a bigger worry for the world than coronavirus, according to influential economist Jeffrey Sachs. The contours of … Just as, for example, in 1950, we currently live in a bipolar system. The Cold War was a golden age for the American university, because it convinced the country’s leaders that the U.S. must be an intellectual superpower to remain a …

News Beijing says US is pushing China to 'brink of a new Cold War' The spat over the COVID-19 outbreak has heightened longstanding tension between Washington and Beijing. Conflict between the two largest economies in the world over Taiwan, Hong Kong and control of the South China …