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Will There Be a New Cold War?

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Zhaoqing Li"There is little prospect of a new Cold War."

Jens Stoltenberg"We're not entering a new Cold War and China is not our adversary, not our enemy."

Joseph E. Stiglitz"The United States appears to have entered a new cold war with both China and Russia."

Xi JinpingChina "will not fight a cold war or a hot war with anyone."

Henry KissingerThere's a risk that "a kind of cold war will develop between China and the United States."

John Mearsheimer"I do think a cold war [between the US and China], by which I mean an intense security competition, is already taking place."

Elliott AbramsA "new Cold War has begun, brought upon the West by the aggressive partnership of Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin."

Fareed ZakariaHow the US handles China will determine "whether the open international system collapses into a second Cold War with arms races in nuclear weapons, space, and artificial intelligence."

Marton Zsurafszky"The Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region is likely to be a battleground in the next Cold War—between the United States and China."

John Koetsier"If TikTok does actually get banned in the U.S., that would be a new escalation in the emerging cold war between America and China."Jan 27, 2022

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Anthony Faiola"The U.S.-China relationship is frosting over into a nascent cold war."

Charles Kupchan"There is no going back to the decoupled, two-bloc global order of the Cold War."

Gary Olson"[E]very effort will be made to ignite Cold War, Phase 2."

The Economist"The Sino-American competition is in danger of becoming a shallow, petulant parody of a cold war."

Dr. Fred Hoffman"For the West, the Cold War ended in 1991. For Vladimir Putin, however, the Cold War never ended, it simply transitioned to a new phase."

Fredrik Logevall"Perhaps it’s not that helpful to think of this [global showdown over Ukraine] as a Cold War 2."

Joe Biden"I absolutely believe there need not be a new Cold War."

Global ResearchAmerica's "inability to separate internal and foreign policies results in a new era of global confrontation, effectively cementing a new Cold War, whether against China or Russia."