Cold War II

"[U]nlike Cold War I, Cold War II will bring instability, not stability."

"[T]he world is multi-polar now. Which is why Cold War II will be less stable and more uncertain for everybody. It might also be less peaceable."

"Cold War II is now upon us. It is fundamentally different from Cold War I."

"China foisted Cold War II on the United States in the first decade of the 21st century[...]"

"It would be strategically erroneous to attach linkages of China’s ongoing Cold War II with the United States to fears of United States revival of Cold War I with Russia."

"From a July 29 Xinhua article: "New Cold War looms large in North-east Asia as Seoul accepts THAAD""

"Matt Novak from Gizmodo: "Book Review: Asia's smile diplomacy disguises a new Cold War""

"Cary Huang from SCMP: "Trump vs. China: Is This the Dawn of a Second Cold War?""

"Sofia Lotto Persio from Newsweek: "China's Xi Warns Trump of New Cold War—Again""

"Ishaan Tharoor from The Washington Post: "Under Trump, U.S. enters a new 'Cold War' with China""

"Christopher A. Preble from CATO Institute: "A New Cold War with China?""

"If left unchecked, current tensions could lead to a second cold war, say American and Chinese analysts."

": Kevin Platt, in "To Head off a 'Cold War II,' China and US Try to Warm Up Relations", The Christian Science Monitor (28 October 1996)"

"Are we barging into another Cold War–this time with China?"

": Henry Butterfield Ryan, in "Another Cold War? China This Time?", Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective (10 June 1999)"

"[China] is now engaged in a second cold war, the Pacific Cold War, with the United States. This war might last as long as the European Cold War—and it is much more likely to turn into a hot one."

": From "Chapter One: The Next War" of Showdown: Why China Wants War with the United States (2006, ) by and Edward Timperlake"

"Wang Dong, specialist of Northeast Asia studies from : "Despite media sensationalism, China and the US are not entering into a new Cold War because, for one thing, the two are highly interdependent, economically and socially, and, for another, the cost of rushing into a new Cold War for nuclear powers like China and the US is prohibitively high.""

"Chen Jian, a Cold War expert from : "A new Cold War is not going to happen if neither side makes serious mistakes, including mistakes related to misperceptions of a new Cold War.""

": From "China warming to new Cold War?" by Kor Kian Beng, in The Straits Times"

"By adopting an ideological and confrontational posture toward China, the Trump administration risks creating a pointless Cold War."

": , in "A Counterproductive Cold War with China", Foreign Affairs (2 March 2018)"

"We certainly don't need to view them [Chinese] as enemies. We can't afford another cold war."

": , former US Secretary of Treasury, "U.S. can't afford a 'cold war' with China, former Bush official says", Dallas News (18 April 2018)"

"There is an undeclared Cold War underway now in the IT sector."

": , former Australian Prime Minister, in "There's an 'undeclared new Cold War' between the US and China — and it's in tech, Australia ex-leader says", CNBC (30 April 2018)"

"This new Cold War, if that is what it is, involves an even more complicated structure of conflict and cooperation, division and unity than the last one."

": Mie Oba, a professor of , in "The Unpredictable, Conflicting Structure of the New Cold War", The Diplomat (29 December 2018)"

"[I]t is nothing less than a new cold war: The constant, interminable Chinese computer hacks of American warships’ maintenance records, Pentagon personnel records, and so forth constitute war by other means. This situation will last decades and will only get worse."

": in "A New Cold War Has Begun", Foreign Policy (7 January 2019)"

"[T]he Chinese are not seeking to launch a new Cold War. That’s America’s doing."

": , Canadian journalist, in "China is not seeking to launch a new Cold War. That’s Trump’s doing", The Globe and Mail (29 January 2019)"

"In that light, Washington’s fight against Huawei looks less like a clear case of defending against Chinese government espionage and cyber threats. It looks more like a cyber version of a new Cold War, where the United States and China are both attempting to line up proxies and divide the world into technology spheres of influence."

": in "The Huawei Case Signals the New US–China Cold War over Tech", Wired (11 March 2019)"

"The defining geopolitical feature of the first half of the 21st century, should current tensions between the United States and China continue escalating, will almost certainly be the strategic rivalry, or even a new cold war, between these two countries."

": Minxin Pei in "International development cooperation in the age of US-China strategic rivalry", Brookings Institute (25 July 2019)"

"Those who call for a new Cold War on China, or for us to sequester our economy entirely from China—which seems to be the new policy of the opposition, weaving as they generally do from one position to the next—are, I think, mistaken. We have a balance to strike. We need to have a clear-eyed relationship with China."

": Boris Johnson, British prime minister, quoted in "Boris Johnson warns against 'new Cold War on China' as he comes under pressure from Conservative MPs" by Greg Heffer, Sky News (16 March 2021)"

"It's [Tension between China and the US] the biggest problem for America; it's the biggest problem for the world. Because if we can't solve that, then the risk is that all over the world a kind of cold war will develop between China and the United States."

": Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State, quoted in "Failure to improve US-China relations 'risks cold war', warns Kissinger" by Vincent Ni and agencies, The Guardian (30 April 2021)"

"1. A new cold war, this time between the United States and China, along with other regional security threats, could be disastrous for Africa's economic development and green transition."

"If certain prognosticators are to be believed, the United States is now facing a new cold war with China. But it seems unlikely that this cold war will produce any sort of high-culture renaissance."

": , an American professor of Yale University, in "The Art of War", Foreign Affairs (January/February 2022)"

"The U.S. and China are in a state of economic decoupling and there do not seem to be any guardrails to prevent escalations in trade tensions from spreading to other areas. [...] It's becoming more difficult to argue that we're not in a new Cold War."

": , a former U.S. Department of State diplomat, quoted in "Breakdown in U.S.-China Relations Raises Specter of New Cold War" by Lingling Wei, The Wall Street Journal (21 April 2025)"

": "[I]f we are concerned about getting into another Cold War relationship, which is actually avoidable, then perhaps it's time that we start thinking about how to change [existing tensions].""

":from "Are Russia, China and the U.S. Headed Toward a New Cold War?" by Andrew Soergel, U.S. News and World Report (26 July 2016)"

": "Read its foreign policy statements and this much becomes clear: The Trump administration is preparing for a new Cold War.""

":in "Trump Is Preparing for a New Cold War," The Atlantic (27 February 2018)"

"Ken Roberts: "Today, the once-prosperous nation of Venezuela is increasingly looking like ground zero in a new Cold War.""