It's official: A Sino-US Cold War is on

Policy by China bashers in Washington envisions a long and costly global strategic confrontation involving new international alliances and American sacrifices.

Published Mon, Jul 27, 2020 · 09:50 PM

US-China trade

HISTORIANS can point today to the exact starting dates of the Great War and World War II, but would probably disagree when asked to pinpoint the day or even the year that marked the beginning of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.

In a way, the post-1945 confrontation between the two global superpowers that had defeated Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan evolved gradually after the end of WWII as the US and the USSR could not agree on the shape of the new international system and were drawn into competition over strategic spheres of influence as well as a major clash of ideologies.

Some suggest that the attempts by Moscow to establish communist puppet regimes in Prague and Warsaw followed by Soviet military expansionism into Greece and Turkey, triggering responses by Washington and its Western allies, should be considered as the first moves in the Cold War.