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It’s now Biden’s cold war
It is China’s challenge to US economic and political hegemony that drives Washington’s hostility – and history shows that challenges to imperialist powers create the conditions for war, says ZOLTAN ZIGEDY

JOE BIDEN’S first week or so in office proved eventful. He began to aggressively undo much of what Donald Trump undid of the Obama presidency. 

In essence, he is returning US politics to 2016. For those who longed only for the exit of Trump and a return to what they saw as the comforting past, the Biden victory is cause for celebration.

For those who want an answer to a raging pandemic that has taken more US lives than World War II, for those who fear for the future of the millions newly unemployed by the pandemic, for those millions in arrears on their rent and eventually facing eviction, and for the nearly three million households forced into forbearance on their mortgage payments, there is little yet to celebrate.

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