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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I wonder, however, how the new cold war impacts us going forward. Niall Ferguson's view that China is not as attractive as they appear and we are more attractive than we appear is comforting, but is it true? And if it is true, will this new cyber/economic cold war inure to our benefit like the past one with Russia, or is it "winnable" by China?

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/chin...000900783.html

Here's Bremmer on why there will be no cold war. https://time.com/5920725/us-china-competition/ It's lucid, as he always is, but he compares the past cold war to the present one predicted by Ferguson and others. And these will be very different cold wars. He also sees interdependence as a force precluding conflict. One could just as easily see it as one inviting conflict, as it creates communication/data sharing channels and supply chains which can be more easily used by the US and China to fuck with each other economically and in terms of cyber attacks, both directly and indirectly.

But I would find it hysterical, and quite undeserved, if the global pivot off this pandemic was a strengthening/re-emergence of the US as sole real superpower on the planet. That'd definitely prove that the most important geopolitical metric on Earth is being the house least on fire on a block of them all aflame.

Damn man. Has anyone actually read Niall Ferguson recently. I thought one of the good sides of the pandemic was that he was out of sight.