China & USA Cold War

MORE than half of Chinese people questioned in a poll believe China and America are heading for a new “cold war”.

The finding came after battles over Taiwan, Tibet, trade, climate change, internet freedom and human rights which have poisoned relations in the three months since President Barack Obama made a fruitless visit to Beijing.

According to diplomatic sources, a rancorous postmortem examination is under way inside the US government, led by officials who think the president was badly advised and was made to appear weak.

In China’s eyes, the American response — which includes a pledge by Obama to get tougher on trade — is a reaction against its rising power.

I can just about bet that if any cold war was to start it would be unlike any that the US had with Russia back in the day. This might explain why the US infrastructure and government computer systems has over several thousand attacks daily. And China is a prime buyer/lender of US debt so if the two were to become entangled in a cold war I wonder how that would complicate matters as far as that is concerned if at all.


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China does seem to be positioning itself as the Global counterbalance to the US that the French were unable to become or that the EU doesn't have the heart to be.

A cold war would complicate everything.. the US needs to be more diplomatic in its approach to China.