US and China locked in Cold War 2.0, warns Niall Ferguson | ABC News The world is entering a new Cold War, as China and the US go head-to-head for the title of dominant economic superpower, warns high-profile British historian ...
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“What made war inevitable,” wrote Thucydides, “was the growth of Athenian power and the fear this caused in Sparta.” In the space of a year, Americans have grown fearful of the growth of Chinese power. What was once the position of a few alarmists is the new orthodoxy in Washington, shared by Republicans and many Democrats, foreign policy wonks and technology nerds. We certainly are on track for a cold one.     

Like her supporters on the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Ilhan Omar knows attacking Israel and accusing its American supporters of dual loyalty is an easy way to draw progressives to the Islamist side. Funny how she has nothing to say about Beijing’s persecution of the Uighurs, a Muslim minority in Xinjiang province, hundreds of thousands of whom are being held in “vocational training centres”; in the old Cold War such camps were called gulags.