Could it be that the author overemphasizes the famous Mark Twain quote that history does not repeat, but it often rhymes?
Comparisons with the Cold War are far fetched! China is very different from the former Soviet Union. China is an ancient civilization of extraordinary achievements, while Russia was a backwater before Peter the Great!
The US and China should engage in "constructive diplomacy" to "effectively address climate change". What a joke! How many coal fired power plants is China building every year?
Did you know that the US was a "multiracial democracy"? Don't we love leftist jargon!
Many people around the world are eagerly awaiting the day that the Chinese people get rid of their Communist Party dictatorship to become a democracy.
Caveat: I did not read the book.
"The rise of China as a global power has cast a shadow over U.S. foreign policy. For nearly a decade, elected leaders from both major political parties have described China as a sinister threat to America’s national interests and democracy worldwide.
As a result, the U.S. government has committed to a full-throated rivalry with China reminiscent of its Cold War with the Soviet Union. ...
His new book, “The Rivalry Peril: How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy” ..., makes the case for taking a less aggressive approach to China. This, he argues, would ease tensions between the two powers and achieve constructive diplomacy, enhancing their ability to effectively address climate change and other pressing global challenges. ...
Great-power competition with China assumes that the United States is engaged in a new Cold War with China. The rise of China as a great power, combined with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s assertive and nationalistic view of his country’s role in the world, has made U.S. policymakers see a return to the dynamics that existed during the Cold War with the Soviet Union. ...
One major cost is to democracy itself. The anti-China rhetoric utilized by Republicans and Democrats has stoked anti-Chinese sentiments that exacerbate nativism and xenophobia, which erodes the foundation of a pluralistic, multiracial democracy [???] like the United States. ...
Another flawed reading of history is the idea that the Cold War united Americans, regardless of political party, in an existential contest against communism. That ignores the rise of McCarthyism and the Red Scare ..."
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