Beijing Letter: Chinese foreign minister describes a world undergoing dramatic changes that represents both a threat and an opportunity for China
The Chinese leadership blames the US for dividing the world into rival blocs, and Xi told Ursula von der Leyen last year that he thought Washington was trying to goad him into invading Taiwan. Xi said he was not going to take that bait, but some Chinese observers are uneasy about Beijing drawing so close to Moscow.
Shen Zhihua, the country’s leading historian of the cold war, warned recently that Vladimir Putin’s attempt to reconstitute the Russian empire represented a security threat to China. “Now the relationship between China and the US is not good, so once again China and Russia have a common enemy that pushes them to unite.
Shen, who runs the Centre for Cold War International History Studies at Shanghai’s East China Normal University, believes that period has useful lessons for China today. He points out that the cold war had economic as well as ideological origins in disputes over US loans to the Soviet Union and German reparations as well as Stalin’s decision not to participate in the Bretton Woods system.
“The systemic confrontation during the cold war first manifested itself in the economy, and the onset of the cold war began with an economic decoupling. In this process both the US and the Soviet Union had strategic misunderstandings about each other, influenced by ideology,” he said. “Every step that led to the cold war had a chance of being reversed but the US and the Soviet Union still fell into the abyss of the cold war.
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