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5. Grand Strategies and Everyday Struggles Under the New Cold War and COVID-19: A Sociological Political Economy

Author : John Wei

Published in: Asia in the Old and New Cold Wars

Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore

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Abstract

The ongoing geopolitical tensions and conflicts between China and the United States on various fronts including trade, technology, and national security have marked an escalating “New Cold War” (or “Warm War”) in the current global superpower competition between a rapidly rising power in the East and an established but declining incumbent in the West. Further, both the geopolitical tensions and people’s living conditions have been worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic that has affected and will continue to shape the superpower rivalry and the post-COVID-19 socioeconomic recovery in China, the United States, and many places in-between.

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Title: Grand Strategies and Everyday Struggles Under the New Cold War and COVID-19: A Sociological Political Economy
Author: John Wei
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Book: Asia in the Old and New Cold Wars
Print ISBN: 978-981-19-7680-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-19-7681-0

Copyright Year: 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7681-0_5