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The new Cold War being waged between two imperialist blocs, dominated by the U.S. and China respectively, has become the main driving force of global economic and political developments. It has slammed the process of capitalist globalisation into reverse and unleashed a military build-up not seen for half a century.<\/p>\n<p>The horrific war in Ukraine is unlikely to be the last war in this dangerous new era. A war between the U.S. and China over Taiwan, which some commentators predict could break out within the next ten years, would threaten even greater horrors including the possible use of nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Marxists identified and began to analyse the new Cold War a decade ago, as this book shows, while most mainstream capitalist commentators have only recently begun to recognise it as a fact. This is not a temporary historical aberration but rather the \u2018new normal\u2019 of global capitalism. Market-driven neoliberal globalisation is receding into the background while the increasingly state-driven power struggle between the two blocs moves centre stage. That is why it is characterised as a Cold War \u2013 a strategic conflict between two camps \u2013 rather than a more disconnected \u2018multipolar\u2019 contest.<\/p>\n<p>Vincent Kolo writes for the Marxist website\u00a0chinaworker.info, published by the China, Hong Kong and Taiwan section of International Socialist Alternative (ISA). This book is a selection of articles looking at Chinese capitalism\u2019s foreign policy, its military ambitions and its strategic conflict with the world\u2019s established hegemon, U.S. imperialism, as this has developed over the past decade.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":41538,"template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[36806],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41529","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-book-3","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"purchasable","11":"product-type-variable"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chinese imperialism and the new Cold War - China Worker<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/chinaworker.info\/en\/\u7db2\u5e97\/chinese-imperialism-and-the-new-cold-war\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chinese imperialism and the new Cold War - China Worker\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Analysis from Marxist website\u00a0chinaworker.info  By Vincent Kolo 208 pages, published July 2023 PDF version\u00a0HK$50  Paperback (print version) HK$120 + postage     \u201cThink 1914 with nuclear weapons at the ready.\u201d This is how Max Boot in the Washington Post described the possibility of a Taiwan war. The new Cold War being waged between two imperialist blocs, dominated by the U.S. and China respectively, has become the main driving force of global economic and political developments. It has slammed the process of capitalist globalisation into reverse and unleashed a military build-up not seen for half a century.  The horrific war in Ukraine is unlikely to be the last war in this dangerous new era. A war between the U.S. and China over Taiwan, which some commentators predict could break out within the next ten years, would threaten even greater horrors including the possible use of nuclear weapons.  Marxists identified and began to analyse the new Cold War a decade ago, as this book shows, while most mainstream capitalist commentators have only recently begun to recognise it as a fact. This is not a temporary historical aberration but rather the \u2018new normal\u2019 of global capitalism. 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