In the First Cold War, the United States and our allies had a secret weapon against the Soviet Union and its satellites. Nor was it a product of DARPA or the weapons labs at Los Alamos. Communism aided the West because it saddled an imperialist Russian state with an unworkable and unpopular economic system that could not keep up with its free-market competitors. Now we are entering the Second Cold War, this time with China. That’s the takeaway from this month’s U.S.-China summit in Anchorage, in which both sides made clear that they had not only clashing interests but also incompatible values.

Source: International New York Times March 29, 2021 22:52 UTC