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The Potential of a Cold War in the United States
I wonder if there's an upside to a possible Cold War as well, domestically in the United States at least. It might have the potential to politically unify what is an increasingly polarized society. And so they've picked up, as it were, the rhetorical frame that we're now into a period of strategic competition. But if you asked any of them to define what the elements of such a new national China strategy might look like on the part of a US administration, Republican or Democrat, that then basically flows in multiple different directions. Could it cohere along the lines that Kennan caused the political and policy establishment to cohere in 48 with the X article, and then his long telegram