We’re Heading Into a New Cold War

The world is changing quickly. Countries are starting to challenge the US-led world order that emerged after World War 2. Countries like China and Russia are hoping to create their own system, based on their own rules and values, and the world’s most important growing economies are taking notice.

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Johnny Harris is an Emmy-winning independent journalist and contributor to the New York Times. Based in Washington, DC, Harris reports on interesting trends and stories domestically and around the globe, publishing to his audience of over 3.5 million on Youtube. Harris produced and hosted the twice Emmy-nominated series Borders for Vox Media. His visual style blends motion graphics with cinematic videography to create content that explains complex issues in relatable ways.

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[artemgulyaev]

Honestly, as a Russian, I am very skeptical of this and believe that this 'New cold war' topic is inflated. I mean, the world is too globalized and interdependent right now. In the real cold war time, there was virtually no trade and closed borders between two blocks and now more than half of China's trade is with the West and vice versa. Every political move discussed is in my view hypocritical, since everyone keeps trading with everyone regardless of these 'alliances'. And that Brics are developing a new currency is just laughable, they aren't even an alliance (SA's president was to arrest Putin if he comes)

[Fujiwara]

Crazy how humanity is fightning constantly

[it.is.mario.]

The amount of changes occurred in the recent 400 years is unimaginable

[backattackjack]

I’ve been saying to friends and family for years now we are currently in The Second Cold War. Glad to see this is becoming more widely recognized

[ilovemalaysia]

I just feel like compared to G7, BRICS still have a far way to go, Russia is entwined in a war, India and China still have trash relations with border issues, Brazil and South Africa aren't the booming tigers they were 20 years back and showed signs of slowing down

[LilArrowInkorperated]

I love the way this video was animated and created with such old school yet soothing sound effects.

[Will-ncsr]

We’ve been in a new Cold War for several years at this point. Considering trade wars and militarization of the South China Sea, things could and likely will get significantly more serious. The Cold War with the USSR has a debated start date, and this one will too when we look back on it.

[Lunarr-esdw]

I'm obsessed with all of your videos. I've almost watched 20 videos in a day and now i feel so intelligent for the last three month i can almost throw a word in any political conversation

[knpark]

I live in South Korea. The world says it is heading to a "New Cold War" while our part of the world even haven't ended the first one. I am confused.

[AwadA-eypn]

“There are decades where nothing happens, then there are months in which decades happen”

[jamesklusener]

the graphics in this video were so good I had to watch the video again because the first time I was just admiring the graphics, stunning job Johnny and team, I really love these geopolitical videos

[XiyuYang]

Speaking as a Chinese who studied in the US, this saddens me greatly. There is nothing I can do because the movements on the current trajectories, were set in motion a long time ago. The only way to get out of this is time taking its course, there is no going back, globalization as I knew and grown up in, is doomed.

[ZawZaw-veri]

As a burmese fan, I really want you to present how terrible the situation in myanmar is, even few words are enough

[chrisrojas]

These video animations have surpassed movie quality cutscenes. Keep up the amazing work in story telling

[kbg]

Sweden is definitely NOT "non-aligned" as shown in the map

[claire]

this is such a nuanced take- so often we see china being portrayed as something of an aggressor but seeing it from a more neutral perspective you can kinda see why they view the west as hypocritical

[ragnarokws]

As a Malaysian i hope China and US dont go to war with each other 😢 life is already hard

[MichaelSmith-ijut]

8:00 BRICS is not some rival to the West or NATO. To make a single currency or military alliance between such disparate far-flung countries would take a lot more unity and mutual co-operation than these states are capable of. The EU is geographically and culturally linked through their proximity to one another and even they haven't managed to spread the Euro to all members, or establish a formal alliance that isn't NATO. China and India are always skirmishing over their border, Russia's a global pariah, and South Africa is nearly a failed state that recently threatened to arrest Putin if he stopped by for the BRICS summit.

NATO they ain't. And a mutual trade currency can't have garbage economies attached to it (South Africa, arguably Russia). Look what Greece did to the Eurozone.

[JYSTTIICK]

This conversation deserves a lot more than 10 minutes

[tadeuvieira]

Regarding to Brazil, the country will always pursue good diplomatic relations with all countries, not picking any side, unless certain country acts against Brazil specifically. This is what it has been since the country's independence, and politically tries to keep in this way. That's not only for "best deals" as mentioned.