Beware trade wars becoming cold wars
Not a day passes now in Washington without officials, lawmakers and pundits warning that America we need to prepare for the coming global confrontation with China
WHEN discussing the history of the Cold War with students during a class on American diplomacy, I always stress that unlike the other two World Wars of the 20th century, we cannot pinpoint a date on which the geo-strategic confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union started - or for that matter, ended.
Did it all begin when the Soviet Union, violating agreements signed with the Western countries, forced communist regimes on Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia?
Or when US President Harry Truman pledged during a speech to Congress on July 12, 1948, to contain Soviet threats in Greece and Turkey - what became known as the Truman Doctrine?
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