Despite what Joe Biden says, we are not approaching a cold war. China is not the Soviet Union, on the one hand

Joe Biden says he's not trying to start a new cold war. Scott Morrison says we can avoid another cold war. Perhaps they could start by changing the language of the Cold War. We are not approaching a cold war the way we understood it to be. Indeed, the old-fashioned containment of China during the Cold War is not possible. On the one hand, China is not the Soviet Union. It is more powerful, economically strong; it is linked to a world power system in a way that the Soviets were not. China is moving closer to an authoritarian superpower…