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Cold War II: Niall Ferguson on The Emerging Conflict With China | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson and Niall Ferguson | Hoover Institution

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The Cold War and Taiwan

Peter Bergen: I think Cold War two is happening faster than Cold War one. The war in Ukraine is the first hot war of Cold War two, he says. It took years for Americans to get the point at George Orwell's essay about a future where there would be nuclear superpowers and it was not until 1950 that people began to see what was going on. "I could see all of that playing out with respect to Taiwan," Bergen says.

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