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I'm all for Cold War analogies! Good excuse to study more Cold War history and think about its meanings. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/world/asia/cold-war-china-us.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimesworld
Americans seem to still frame the Cold War in terms of themselves and the Soviets. 'Global Cold War' historians dismantled & rebuilt that narrative, but how much has academic work has seeped into public awareness? 从 JL Gaddis 到 Westad, Lien-hang Nguyen, @LorenzLuthi 等等？
Irony of framing current US-China relations as Cold War 2.0 is forgetting the First Cold War started w a hot war between the US and China. It was called the Korean War. Aka, the Forgotten War [b/c America didn't win]. Now known as the 'Forgotten Victory' [b/c South Korea].
Korea was the prototypical Cold War hot war b/c it was a 'limited war', meaning geographically limited to territory outside the US and USSR, and only unofficially/ covertly fought between US and USSR-- but not openly/ officially. To Koreans, it was 'total war'.
The Americans and Russians/Chinese learned from Korea they could fight one another without escalating to World War III/ nuclear apocalypse, which no one [except maybe Douglas MacArthur] really wanted. Decades of covert and 'proxy' warfare ensued.
Not really sure what to do with juxtapositions of the historical Cold War and the imaginary/ projected Second Cold War. Maybe learn from Global CW historiography by not framing it in binary US-China terms?
'History is a tangled skein.' Historians are kittens.
'History is a tangled skein.' Historians are kittens.
