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The past decade and a half has seen upheaval across the globe. The 2008 financial crisis and its fallout, the Covid-19 pandemic and major regional conflicts in Sudan, the Middle East, Ukraine and elsewhere have left residual uncertainty. Added to this is a tense, growing rivalry between the US and its perceived opponents, particularly China.
In October 2023, damage to the Balticconnector gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia knocked it out for six months. Suspicion quickly fell upon a Chinese-owned, Hong Kong-flagged container ship called the Newnew Polar Bear.
Russia’s new combat icebreaker, known as the Project 23550 Ivan Papanin, has embarked on factory sea trials, signaling Russia’s intensified strategic focus on the Arctic amid an emerging New Cold War.
China’s secret spy bases in Cuba signal a new front in Beijing’s global intelligence game by targeting America’s southeastern seaboard.
Portraying the United States and China as locked in a “New Cold War” has become something of a cottage industry, providing provocative fodder for think tanks, the foreign policy cognoscenti and the broader commentariat while generating reams of stirring material for books, articles and documentary films.
BANGKOK – The US and China are taking turns wooing Cambodia’s West Point-educated prime minister with guns, money and friendship but the Chinese are scoring most of the rewards.
There are at least two ways to view Sino-American tensions. The United States and China are two great powers competing for pre-eminent strategic influence over the same geographic region. But they are also the leaders of two contending ideological blocs pitting liberal democracies against authoritarians.
By any measure, it would be a stretch to say that the United States is currently engaged in a New Cold War proxy war with China and Russia in Myanmar.