U.S. effort to form a global anti-China alliance is getting out of hand

Creating a new Cold War, this time with China, is both dangerous and counter-productive. It would divide the world into hostile blocs that would make everyone worse off economically, raise the risk of nuclear war, and lower the ability to solve urgent problems that can only be resolved with global cooperation.

Not everyone is buying into the American crusade which U.S. President Joe Biden, pictured June 10, 2021, with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, pushed hard at the recent G7 summit in Britain and the NATO summit in Belgium. Photograph courtesy of Flickr/Andrew Parsons/No. 10 Downing Street

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

June 25, 2021

TORONTO—The U.S. effort to form a global anti-China alliance is getting out of hand. Creating a new Cold War, this time with China, is both dangerous and counter-productive. It would divide the world into hostile blocs that would make everyone worse off economically, raise the risk of nuclear wa...

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