The Second Cold War: Comparing China’s Role to the USSR’s in the Global Conflict

On the other hand, China is trying to use Russia as a means to fulfill its goals of imposing its world vision on the whole world.

American researcher Stuart Ford points out that the “New Cold War” should rather be attributed to the United States on the one hand, and China and Russia on the other.

Comparing the “old” and “new” Cold War, it can be concluded that the main differences are not only among the hostile parties, but also the possible trajectory of the conflict’s development is different.

China, unlike the USSR, has a much higher level of economic development, which has great growth prospects. In addition, China and the US are major trading partners, so a direct military conflict would be very detrimental to both sides.

The main difference is that today’s international relations cannot be called bipolar, but the potential of countries choosing not to join one side or the other (for example, the “global South”) is significantly greater than 50 years ago.

The Second Cold War

In parallel, there is another definition that describes the confrontation between the US and China – the Second Cold War, which, like the previous term, came into active use in 2014 to describe US-Russian relations, but was later applied to China as well.

British historian Neil Ferguson points out that the confrontation between China and the United States is more sensible to call the Second Cold War. He explains: so was the First World War, followed by the Second. They were not identical, but they shared several features. As there was the First Cold War, the world is currently in the Second.

2023-09-01 21:01:00
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