"We are in the foothills of a Cold War." Those were the words of Henry Kissinger when I interviewed him at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Beijing last November. The observation in itself was not wholly startling. It had seemed obvious to me since early last year that a new Cold War — between the U.S. and China — had begun. This insight wasn't just based on interviews with elder statesmen. Counterintuitive as it may seem, I had picked up the idea from binge-reading Chinese science fiction. First, the history. What had started out in early 2018 as a trade war over tariffs and intellectual property theft had by the end of the year metamorphosed into a technology war over the global dominance of the Chinese company Huawei Technologies Co. in 5G network telecommunications; an ideological confrontation in response to Beijing's treatment of the Uighur minority in China's Xinjiang region and the pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong; and an escalation of old frictions over Taiwan and the South China Sea. Nevertheless, for Kissinger, of all people, to acknowledge that we were in the opening phase of Cold War II was remarkable. Read the whole thing. The Fight Over a Coronavirus Vaccine Will Get Ugly — Andreas Kluth The NBA's Reopening Is a Warning Sign for the Economy — Tyler Cowen A Guided Tour Into Trump's Troubled Mind — Timothy L. O'Brien Facing Two Crises, Trump Goes AWOL — Jonathan Bernstein The Supreme Court Puts Trump in His Place — Timothy L. O'Brien Facebook and Zuckerberg Disappoint Once Again — Tae Kim Why Europe's in Better Shape Than the U.S. — Ferdinando Giugliano It Really Is Trump's Fault — Matthew A. Winkler The U.S. Is Trying to Turn China Into the Next Iran — Eli Lake This is the Weekend Edition of Bloomberg Opinion Today, a roundup of the most popular stories Bloomberg Opinion published this week based on web readership, plus some other stuff occasionally thrown in. | 
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