Applying Cold War Lessons to Great Power Competition: Historian Hal Brands
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Is There a Lesson That China Has Learned From the Cold War?
Until pretty recently, i think china had drawn very two, very astute lessons from the cold war. The first was don't give the united states a pretext for waging a cold war against you. And the second was, stay away from a sort of a numerical nuclear arms race with the united states. Now it's ironic that these are the two lessons, because china has basically forgotten both these lessons over the past decade or few years. I couldn't agree with you more. We have an awful long way to go here. We're not where we need to be.
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