We should learn from history, but not be constrained by it.

As the world speculates on the immense damage the escalating U.S.-China trade war could bring to international economic sphere, these tensions could be putting the Earth itself at risk of destruction.

Open confrontation between the two powers is now a real possibility.

Behind China’s apparent might lie fundamental weaknesses.

The US, in launching a ‘trade war’ against China, is appealing to the thinking and rhetoric of the late-twentieth-century - Cold War. This is inappropriate to the modern age, as the world has moved on and become multipolar. China does not itself seek hegemony, but has a number of options to build alliances with which to repel any US hegemonic ambitions, which are thus doomed to failure.

This is how a cold war between China and the US might start.

Cold War benefits no one.

China and the US need to be vigilant toward the new challenges in their bilateral relations, maintain strategic restraint and change the pattern of their interactions if they are to avoid unthinkingly entering a new Cold War.

China-US interdependence should prevent the two countries from entering a Cold War. Mutually assured destruction will prevent a hot war.

Labeling China and Russia revisionist powers is a declaration of a new Cold War.