How hot could the US-China 'Cold War' get?

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Tensions are mounting by the day between the United States and China, leading to talk of a new Cold War. Experts see important historical ...

China's President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump meet at a summit in Osaka in June 2019 AFP/Brendan SmialowskiWASHINGTON: Tensions are mounting by the day between the United States and China, leading to talk of a new Cold War. Experts see important historical differences - but believe the two powers are entering dangerous territory.

"One key difference is that the two states are still closely connected economically, although that relationship is now under considerable strain." She said that using a Cold War lens leads to ineffective responses, including Washington incorrectly seeing Beijing as an ideological threat. "But Beijing won't do this because it fundamentally misunderstands the drivers of US policy. It thinks the US is responding to its own decline in power - that no matter how Beijing acts, the US will lash out," she said.

"Personally I was of that school that you could work with these folks. But my epiphany came 10 years ago when I went to Beijing," he told a recent think tank event. Trump has still voiced hope of preserving a trade deal with China, which promised before the coronavirus pandemic to ramp up purchases of US goods.

 

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