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A Second Cold War, [1] [2] Cold War II, [3] [4] or the New Cold War [5] [6] [7] has been used to describe heightened geopolitical tensions in the 21st century between usually, on one side, the United States and, on the other, either China or Russia—the successor state of the Soviet Union, which led the Eastern Bloc during the original Cold War.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The challenges to the U.S. posed by China exceed those of the Cold War, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said on Wednesday, charging that Beijing's support for ...
The end of the Cold War and dissolution of the Soviet Union removed the original motives underlying rapprochement between China and the United States. [97] Motivated by concerns that the United States might curtail support for China's modernization, Deng adopted a low-profile foreign policy to live with the fact of United States hegemony and ...
The global economy could be sleepwalking into a second Cold War, a leading international body has warned, as tensions between the U.S. and China risk wiping trillions from worldwide GDP.
US special operations forces could be leveraged in ways similar to the way they were in the Cold War as the US military focuses on China and Russia.
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
After their defeat in the Chinese Civil War, parts of the Nationalist army retreated south and crossed the border into Burma. [12]: 65 The United States supported these Nationalist forces because the United States hoped they would harass the People's Republic of China from the southwest, thereby diverting Chinese resources from the Korean War.
Eurasia Group Founder and CEO Ian Bremmer believes that the U.S. and China are heading towards a cold war, as tensions rise over the issue in Hong Kong.