what we have between the United States and China literally is the dictionary definition of a Cold War. Literally, I can tell you the definition from just the Oxford dictionary is that a Cold War is a state of political hostility between countries that is characterized by threats, propaganda. And other measures short of warfare, open warfare. I mean, I would challenge any of your listeners to tell me that that is not the exact definition of the state of relationships between our two countries right now. But beyond that, we go through the history of Cold War one, as I call it, the Cold War and compare and contrast to what's going on today in China. And I was actually struck doing the deep research for this book of how almost identical the two conflicts are on just every single part of the competition that defined the first Cold War, whether it's the global competition for supremacy between the two nations, whether it's the arms race, right? We're in a nuclear arms race, we're in a (10/57)
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