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Cold War Statecraft for the 2020s

How the U.S. victory over the Soviet Union can guide our thinking on China.
Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch (Photos via Getty Images).

The United States and China are firmly locked in a cold war struggle whose outcome will be the most important determinant of peace, prosperity, and quality of life in international politics over the next decade.

That view enjoys nearly unanimous agreement—in Beijing and Washington, among Democrats and Republicans, and around the world in Brussels, Delhi, and Abu Dhabi, where leaders increasingly frame choices and consider options with an eye toward how they should position their nations within this new bipolar power contest.

Steven Weber is a partner at Breakwater Strategy, an advisory firm based in Washington, D.C, and a professor of the Graduate School at University of California-Berkeley.

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