Been thinking about the Cold War recently and how we are seeing the same things that occurred between the us and the ussr happen between the us and china nowadays. I was on the fence about weather to classify the geopolitics of the us and china as a ‘Cold War’ because of the lack of apparent proxy conflicts, something that characterised the original Cold War greatly. Then I realised, Russia-Ukraine is partly a proxy conflict. The us obviously supports Ukraine and, and this was the part I forgot, china is basically Russia’s economic lifeline atm and I wouldn’t be surprised if Chinese weapons were being used by Russia right now. In this sense the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a proxy conflict (not necessarily characterised by military aid, but economic aid to continue fighting as well) between the United States and China. Another characteristic of the Cold War was economic completion, which is very much starting to crop up (us bans on certain exports to China) and technological competition, for example a nuclear buildup in the 20th century, and a military base buildup in the 21st. In many ways, current events and actions by both China and the United States point towards a new Cold War, and I would argue that it is very much underway.

P.S: sorry if this is paced kinda weirdly, im tired and cant be bothered to edit this so here is your raw geopolitical commentary