On the New Cold War Promoted by the US Government Against China—Interview with Professor David M. Kotz

ABSTRACT

The US government has been promoting a new cold war against China for some time. It began before former President Donald Trump initiated a trade war against China and has continued under President Biden. The underlying reason for this policy is the drive of the US government to maintain a position of global domination and to prevent any other country from rising to a position of equal, or near equal, economic, political, or military strength with the US. This cold war is unjustified and poses serious dangers for people around the world.

KEYWORDS:

• Cold war
• imperialism
• development
• trade war
• China

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Notes

1 See “A Conversation with Ambassador Katherine Tai, U.S. Trade Representative.” https://www.csis.org/analysis/conversation-ambassador-katherine-tai-us-trade-representative.

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Notes on contributors

David M. Kotz

David M. Kotz is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Senior Research Fellow in the Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Capitalism (Harvard University Press, 2015) and Russia’s Path from Gorbachev to Putin: The Demise of the Soviet System and the New Russia (with Fred Weir, Routledge, 2007). He is coeditor of Contemporary Capitalism and Its Crises: Social Structure of Accumulation Theory for the 21st Century (with Terrence McDonough and Michael Reich, Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Qingmei Yang

Qingmei Yang is a PhD candidate at the School of Marxism, Tsinghua University.