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A second cold war is tracking the first

7 mins | Apr 3, 2021
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The West is squaring up to Russia and China. The US, Russia, and China all say that they want to avoid a new Cold War, while analyses also suggest that today's superpower rivalries are not the same as in the past. But, Gideon Rachman argues, there are eerily similarities between the current political climate and the Cold War era. Here, he explains why.

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