Cold War 2.0: China didn’t challenge America from outside — it rose from within

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The Beijing summit between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping did not ease the strategic rivalry between the United States and China. It only highlighted how deep, structural, and long-term that rivalry has become.

What we are witnessing is Cold War 2.0 — not a replay of the Soviet confrontation, but a far more sophisticated struggle built on economic dependency, technological control, and supply-chain dominance.

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