Xi Jinping, Donald Trump, and Vladimir Putin © Reuters / Pool and Kevin Lamarque
Michael O’Hanlon and Sean Zeigler, USA Today: No, we aren't on the brink of a new Cold War with Russia and China
It might be a popular phrase to drum up clicks and interest, but the United States is definitely not on the brink of the next Cold War
Increasingly in U.S. national security circles, it has become common to hear talk of a new Cold War with great-power rivals. But this way of thinking is imprecise at best, dangerous at worst. A distinguished group of American experts has just warned against such thinking in regard to China, lest it create a self-fulfilling prophecy. However unbecoming Vladimir Putin's rule may be in Moscow, we need a similar corrective for how we think about Russia.
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WNU Editor: I concur with the above analysis. I lived through the real Cold War, and today's tensions are not even remotely close to what the world was like 30 to 65 years ago.
