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China Is a Problem. But We Don’t Need a New Cold War.

China is definitely an adversary, but it isn’t really an ideological competitor the way the Soviet Union was.
China Is a Problem. But We Don't Need a New Cold War.

It’s easy to miss, given how polarized our politics are, but there is a growing consensus around a very big issue: China. 

Foreign policy experts, military leaders and politicians across the ideological spectrum all tend to agree that a new era of confrontation with China has begun. Many on the right have been calling for a Cold War approach to China for a while now.

Jonah Goldberg is editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Dispatch, based in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, enormous lizards roamed the Earth. More immediately prior to that, Jonah spent two decades at National Review, where he was a senior editor, among other things. He is also a bestselling author, longtime columnist for the Los Angeles Times, commentator for CNN, and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. When he is not writing the G-File or hosting The Remnant podcast, he finds real joy in family time, attending to his dogs and cat, and blaming Steve Hayes for various things.

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