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The world economy is on the brink of a second cold war that could "annihilate" progress made since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a senior International Monetary Fund official has warned. Gita Gopinath, the IMF's first deputy managing director, said the accelerating fragmentation of the world economy into regional power blocs - centred around the US and China - risked wiping out trillions of dollars in global output. "If we descend into cold war two, knowing the costs, we may not see mutually assured economic destruction. But we could see an annihilation of the gains from open trade," she…