Perspective: A new Cold War? Not quite.
President Trump meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping on July 8, 2017, at the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. By Gregory Mitrovich Gregory Mitrovich is a research scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University and author of"Undermining the Kremlin: America’s Strategy to Subvert the Soviet Bloc, 1947-1956.
That's because for all its achievements, China has yet to achieve the Soviet Union’s combination of political, military and cultural strength that enabled the Kremlin leaders to challenge the United States in every corner of the world, nearly undermining America’s efforts to reconstruct postwar Europe.
Berlin, a city divided between East and West, was the key Cold War flash point. The Soviets were determined to force the West out of its half of the city, challenging it three times between 1948 and 1961 in the hopes of coercing a U.S. withdrawal. Each time they failed because America’s leaders were willing to risk nuclear war. Today no such flash point exists between China and the United States.
The Kremlin could also turn to powerful communist parties and committed revolutionaries that threatened to overthrow pro-U.S. governments around the world. During the 1940s and 1950s, the French and Italian communist parties worked in tandem with Soviet leaders in trying to undermine the Marshall Plan and derail Europe’s postwar recovery. The Communist Party controlled French labor unions and would literally shut down the entire French economy at the whim of the Soviet Union.
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