The Devil’s Advocate - A New Cold War Cannot Save a Warming

• The lesson of the Cold War is that when the West focusses and realises the nature of the threat from a communist regime, its technological innovation accelerates and the only way we’re going to save the planet is through precisely the sort of technological innovation that will come from geopolitical competition with the PRC. [...] the tools of choice for modern China.2 Can we in the West trust the CCP to Modern China constitutes a different sort cooperate on issues like COVID and of threat to the international order to that Climate Change? of the USSR. [...] finances and banking system which may in Trump supporters still work the floors of time collapse, potentially leading to the Federal and State Houses and even unforeseen power struggles at the top of while investigations continue to beleaguer the CCP hierarchy or even the collapse of team Trump, they are not close to the CCP itself. [...] The West holds This is hardly an international picture that China responsible for the COVID outbreak favours the West or the unity of Western and the Chinese leadership under Xi is governments. [...] For collaboration and cooperation between Views expressed in this article the West and China during COVID, a face- are not necessarily those of saving way would have to be found for the SAGE International West to forgive the PRC and the CCP’s shambolic handling of the COVID pandemic’s opening phases and then for China to accept this and move on.