China quietly shifts the rules for NZ as a New Cold War looms

China quietly shifts the rules for NZ as a New Cold War looms

Comment: There is a German phrase – zeitgeist – which roughly translates to ‘spirit of the time’. The spirit of our time is the return of great power politics. The current era of US-China ‘strategic competition’ that began in 2017 is a return to great power competition that we last saw during the Cold War, when the US and the Soviet Union were foes. US-China rivalry cannot be wished away; it is structural in nature. In an important sense, it doe…