April 11, 2016

"Many features of the United States-Soviet Cold War are present in contemporary US-China relations: Ideological competition, struggles over the control of natural resources and old-fashioned rivalry for leadership of the global community.

The question for the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN) is: What is the likelihood of a Cold War between the US and China taking place on South-east Asian soil? And what can be done to prevent a new Cold War? Optimists among us would say that both presidents Xi Jinping and Barack Obama are fully cognisant of the tremendous waste such a confrontation would entail. More importantly, neither the Chinese nor the Americans fear or dislike each other enough to support another Cold War."

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http://www.todayonline.com/chinaindia/china/integration-can-keep-asean-above-us-china-fray

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