Professor Wang Gungwu on US-China Rivalry and the New Cold War
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Professor Wang Gungwu compares US-China rivalry to the US-Soviet Cold War, suggesting both powers will avoid direct conflict due to nuclear weapons and instead rely on proxy conflicts and strategies to undermine each other's power.
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Professor Wang Gungwu is an authority on Chinese history, diaspora, and international relations.
Professor Wang Gungwu is regarded internationally as an authority on Chinese history. The 95-year-old is best known for his explorations of Chinese history in the long view, and for his writings on the Chinese diaspora. He has been a professor at the National University of Singapore since 2007 and emeritus professor at the Australian National University since 1988. He was vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong from 1986 to 1995.
At one level, it is really similar to the United States and Soviet Union Cold War because both have nuclear weapons.
The question of having to fight one another and the possibility of using nuclear weapons makes it unlikely that they will fight each other. Fighting through proxies would be the same as during the Cold War.
I think military strategists would think that the way to deal with the situation when there’s US and China rivalry is to have another Cold War, and for the US to use the same methods that they used to destroy the Soviet Union.
They would destroy the China threat in the sense of undermining its power. If they can do that without fighting, that would be ideal because fighting is dangerous.
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- What specific proxy methods will the US and China employ?
