Adjustments needed By Dong Feng Published: Mar 14, 2021 08:13 PM Recently a series of opinion articles published by Bloomberg in late February, arguing that Germany, the Philippines, India, and Djibouti may decide the US-China Cold War. However, experts from various countries told the Global Times that the five articles have been focusing on a US-China competition, analyzing the differences between the new Cold War between China and the US and the competition between major powers in the past. The West has two options: It can regard China s advancement as a chance for a complete restructuring of the world economy, environmental policy, and for the building-up of collective security structures - or it can start a new Cold War, making conflicts, economic sanctions, military threats and ideological struggles the central axis of its politics.
WORLD / CROSS-BORDERS By Dong Feng Published: Mar 14, 2021 07:48 PM Bloomberg published a series of opinion articles in late February, arguing that Germany, the Philippines, India and Djibouti may decide the US-China cold war. However, experts from various countries told the Global Times that these articles have been focusing on a US-China competition, analyzing the differences between the new Cold War between China and the US and the competition between major powers in the past. The West has two options: It can regard China s advancement as a chance for a complete restructuring of the world economy, environmental policy, and for the building up of collective security structures - or it can start a new Cold War, making conflict, economic sanctions, military threats and ideological struggles the central axis of its politics.
Disparities between rich and poor as well as between developed and developing nations in terms of wealth, public health and digital issues are widening across the globe, and countries have no other choice than to join hands to tackle the unprecedented crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, senior international relations scholars said.
China-US relations have reached a crucial juncture. The two countries should work together and meet each other halfway, uphold the spirit of nonconflicting, nonconfrontation, mutual respect and win-win cooperation, said experts attending the launch of an annual blue book on international affairs.
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