Senator: Starting new cold war with China 'dangerous' – Chinadaily.com.cn

The national flags of China and the United States. [Photo/Xinhua] It is “distressing and dangerous” for the political establishment in Washington to drum up a new cold war with China, a trend that risks jeopardizing the interests of both countries along with the cooperation that the world badly needs, a high-profile US politician noted on Thursday. In the article “Washington’s Dangerous New Consensus on China” published on Foreign Affairs, US Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont challenged what he said was a “fast-growing consensus” emerging in the US that views US-China relations as a zero-sum economic and military struggle. “The prevalence…