v China: is this the new cold war? - FT.com

US v China: is this the new cold war? - FT.com By Geoff Dyer--The new era of military competition in the Pacific will become the defining geopolitical contest of the 21st century // I have started Dyer's new book The Contest of the Century: The New Era of Competition with China--and How America Can Win, looks excellent

Related: How China and America See Each Other | Foreign Affairs Minxin Pei// As a result, as China continues to grow stronger, it will seek either to modify the existing order or, if such an endeavor proves too risky or too costly, to construct a parallel order more to its liking. Such an order would not necessarily stand in direct conflict with the U.S.-led order, in the way that the Soviet bloc did, but it would have its own rules, exclude the West, and allow China to play a dominant role. Indeed, Beijing’s investments in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the planned BRICS development bank (a joint financial institution to be established by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) suggest that China is already moving down this path. China’s controversial establishment last November of an air defense identification zone that overlaps with those of Japan and South Korea dramatically raised the risks of conflict with the United States and its allies. And it has further vindicated the realists’ warning that China will not hesitate to challenge the Western order once it has the ability to do so.