Learning the Right Lessons from the Cold War

Learning the Right Lessons from the Cold War

America’s twilight struggle with the Soviet Union should compel Washington to out-compete Beijing, not cooperate with it.

Michael Sobolik is a senior fellow in Indo-Pacific studies at the American Foreign Policy Council and the author of Countering China’s Great Game: A Strategy for American Dominance (Naval Institute Press). Follow him on X: @michaelsobolik.

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