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The “diplomatic boycott” of the Beijing Olympics is little more than an empty gesture, says Andrew Hammond .
Hammond: Some important variables are by nature unknowable; others are obfuscated by China , Taiwan , or the US .
He says there are structural factors that add their weight to either side of the balance.
Hammond says neither side in China - US rivalry seems particularly anxious about the nuclear balance.
U.S. and China enter “ Cold War II ” very differently from how NATO and the USSR entered Cold War I’s” It produces a wholly different quality of desperation, says Julian Zelizer .
Zelizer: We are not fresh from an apocalyptic world war. We have not seen the conditions that drive people to invent and use nuclear weapons. China has not extended its borders an inch for every mile that the Soviet Union annexed during that horrible, and non-nuclear, western conflict, he says.
War in Ukraine has accelerated the forging of alliances, the reorientation of institutions, and the political and material preparation for military conflict with China .
It is in this sense as much as any other that the Cold War is back, as it is a war between evenly matched foes.
We are being drawn out of the self-absorption that is native to all great states, because of their borders.
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