1. Adam Tooze's lengthy essay in the latest edition of The London Review of Books is worth reading in its entirety. One clear-headed paragraph: "The mistake in thinking that we are in a ‘new Cold War’ is in thinking of it as new. In putting a full stop after 1989 we prematurely declare a Western victory. From Beijing’s point of view, there was no end…
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