The deeper roots of a potential new Cold War with China
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President Biden meets with China's President Xi Jinping during a virtual summit in November. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
In a commentary, SMU Assistant Professor of Humanities Ngoei Wen-Qing discussed the deeper roots of a potential new Cold War between US and China, and how tensions between the two countries today reflect the long-standing ideas about race and the legacy of colonialism and are not merely a Cold War redux or a byproduct of China’s very recent emergence as a superpower.