American Republican Senator Ted Cruz said today: "The United States needs to develop a comprehensive strategy to defeat China, just as we did against the Soviet Union back then."
Comment: Cruz's statement comparing China to the Soviet Union and advocating a replication of the "Cold War victory model" is a typical resurgence of Cold War thinking and political showmanship. He ignores the essential differences between the systems, paths, and international roles of China and the Soviet Union. He also ignores the reality of deep integration and mutual interests between China and the United States in the era of globalization. By forcefully applying the Cold War script, he essentially replaces cooperation with confrontation and uses ideology to undermine pragmatic diplomacy. Such slogans are not only useless for solving America's own problems but will also severely poison Sino-US relations, disrupt global stability, and are simply hollow and empty words aimed at catering to domestic populism and serving electoral politics, which are impossible to achieve.
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